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REDRIDMHO0D : 
 
 OPERATIC IITeIluSe, 
 
 II TWO ACTS, 
 
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 ^ THE LIBRETTO 
 
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 QUEBEC : 
 
 ? PBINTED BY J. T. BROUSSEAU, 
 
 AT HIS STEAM PRESS ESTABLISHMENT- 9, BUADE gTRI 
 
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First performed at the Music Hall, Quebec, on 
 Friday 24th Februaiy, 1854. 
 
 MOTHER, ) ^- ^^ 
 
 GRANDMOTPER, $ ' ' ' Kimber, 
 
 RED RIDING HOOD, . . . Mr, F. W. Skist, 
 
 WOLF, Mr. Brauw, 
 
 CHORUS OF VILLAGERS, &c. 
 
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 RED RIDING HOOD. 
 
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 )ENE A CUT WOOD.— RED KlDINa HOOD'S COTTA0B 
 
 ON THE LEFT. 
 
 (jb the Curtain tUes, VUlaffers enter ri^i hand and com* 
 r.) ^^ 
 
 odoRtrs. 
 
 Wake from your slmnber deep 
 Pride of our forest glade. 
 Wake — ^xrom your naming sle^ 
 Lovely and happy maid I — 
 
 See— the bright davv^aing sky? 
 List — ^how we sine and sigh t 
 Open your lattice nigh, 
 
 Qaeenofonr May. 
 
 Maiden so fiedr and trill 
 Long have we waited jftHi I 
 Sadly your absence raO| 
 
 WliilBtyovdeUy. 
 
 Awake^'^HMWiifte, &o. 
 
 I Villager. — 
 
 SheoolneEtl 
 (Enter Bed Biding Hood and Mother.) 
 » »isiNO HooD.^recit.) 
 
 i^greet ye my friendsi liapi^iiiess is mine this 
 mOMiing) m^ thoflmUe dPthosegkMi hoes I read 
 '«-kii^ly wele^aae. 
 
 ^n^ming) «eurohed em gpur&i bower, searched 
 ea<^'foie0t!^a4#; to 4im. wm u mmd^mu w 
 «Mi^. 
 
 PHBR.— 
 
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 Ked Riding Hood. — 
 
 Joy, joy, joy I — Queen of the May. — ^Then alt 
 
 my hopes and ^^ama are true I — 
 Rid Riding Hood. — (Solo.) ^ 
 
 Glad as this golden day 
 
 Bounds my happy heart, 
 
 Glad in* these Realms of May 
 
 To act the Royal part. 
 
 The trees of haughty height 
 
 Shall bow their heads before me, ^ 
 
 The flowers so sweet and bright 
 
 Will as their Queen adore me. 
 
 Glad as the golden day, &c., &o. 
 
 Mother. — (recit.) 
 
 Come, come sweet daughter^ bid yourkind fii^ds 
 adieu — Kind Sirs, she shall attend ye to the village 
 green — and lead your sport. 
 
 * CHORUS. 
 
 Hail to our forest Queen I 
 Lovely Red Riding Hood I 
 Never was maiden seen 
 Blooming so fair and good. 
 
 Hence I where our May pole high 
 Points to the sunny sky, 
 Friends — let's away L 
 No longer stay. 
 
 The throne prepare. 
 
 Lilies and Roses fi|ie. 
 All in a garland twine,,--? 
 Friends — diet's away 1 
 No longer stay, 
 
 The throne prepare. 
 
 (Exeunt Villagers.) 
 
 RED RIDING HOOD and MOTHER, come forward.— 
 Mother. — (R. H.) 
 
 My sweetest daughter thy small heart must beat 
 Such kindness from thy village friends to meet, 
 That all the lads and lasses of the place 
 Should come to serenade thy silly mce. 
 Some say thou'rt pretty, but 'tis very clear 
 They all talk nonsense, dont believe them dear — 
 Thou should'st have seen thy mother seated high 
 
 
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 .Upon the May-day throne. How with a wave 
 
 
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 Majestic of my May-day wand — I gave 
 The ngn for <lance and ohoms to begin, 
 And roorta in honor of their beauteous Queen. 
 
 Riding Hood.-— (L. h.) 
 
 Their beauteotu Queen / Mamma, I thought yon 
 
 said 
 That you were on the throne, their sports to head 
 And you although a dear, old, sweet, old Ma, 
 Were never beautiful — that is Papa 
 Said oft 
 
 MoTHBE.— (aside. ) 
 
 T'is well the wretched man is dead. 
 (Aloud.) What put such utter nonsense in your head ? 
 A man he was without a spark of taste 
 Indeed to marry him was utter waste. 
 
 BiDiNO Hood. — ^Without a spark of taste mamma I but Oh I 
 He showed some taste when he selected you. 
 
 Mother. — No, not the least. I owned him life and limb, 
 He chose not me, but I selected him. 
 
 RiDiNa Hood.— Selected him mamma I 
 
 MOTHIR.— Of course I did. 
 
 The truth in love sffaivB is often hid 
 Beneath a world of bashful looks and sighs 
 Of coy behaviour — ^blushes — down cast eyes. 
 
 Riding Hood. — Oh ma, do'nt go on so, — 
 
 Mother. — Do'ntgoonsol 
 
 Riding Hood. — ^I never had a love affair you know. 
 At least — that is — ^perhaps — 
 
 Mother. — Hey day what's now ? 
 
 Riding Hood. — ^Pray is it wrong to blush mamma ? 
 
 Mother. — 1 vow " 
 
 You are the oddest girl I ere came near. 
 
 Riding HooD.--(Crossing to R. H.) 
 
 The oddest girl — ^well perhaps I am Ma dear, 
 
 And vet I look around — How many graces 
 
 This happy town affords — ^And beauteous faces 
 
 Radiant with smiles. Oh be it mine 
 
 To follow their example. A design 
 
 I have just formed— but I shall fail I fear 
 
 To mock such grace as that assembled here. 
 
 Mother. — As that assembled ?iere ? of course you mean 
 Out yonder, round the May-pole on die green. 
 
 Riding Hood. — Oh any where you please mamma, but say 
 What must I do to win their hearts to dav ? 
 
 Mother. — Dress well — dance well — ^put on your cloak and' 
 
 hood,-— 
 
 The color suits your faee. 
 
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 RtMMO Ho<«>.-r- 
 
 MotHDL-nr 
 
 Riding Hood 
 Mother; — 
 
 Riding Hood. 
 
 MOTHEB. — . 
 
 Riding Hood. 
 
 M0fBIB.-?r- 
 
 RtDiNO Hood. 
 
 M0TH1R.-W 
 
 Ridino Hood 
 Mother.-— 
 
 Riding Hood 
 (They Sing.) 
 
 M6THEft.^rs 
 
 ........ . /Pwia vefy good 
 
 Of joa to give it me^ my mt mammft^ 
 But tiien &e girls lilce red doth better far 
 When made into a coat. 
 
 AmL poor tlie chance 
 
 Of sober coated knaves. Why who can danoe^ 
 Or sing^ or flirt— like him nhfm coat is red. 
 Oh &0V tliey flirt ! Your fatJker often said— 
 
 ,— -What i^t to flirt manuna ? I do not know. 
 T\b better that you learn to spin and sew 
 Than learn to flirt jnst yet, t'is no use {teaching, 
 But take my word fwiU come without much 
 teaohkftg. 
 
 --It most be Twy niee. 
 
 ,,,/,, T'is nonsense daughter 
 
 You know fitrbettei, Miss, at feast you ought to. 
 
 rrn'Daughier and ought to make a sorry rhyme. 
 I could no* find a better i» the time 
 Besides!' use whatever rhymes I please 
 Just those -.^at come to me with greatest ease, 
 So Miss, do' Dt you find fault, for I wont stand it 
 
 -r-Oh I Ma, T0II qp«ik to me Bke any bandit— 
 I'm sure I lieg your pardon. 
 
 . . . . . ... . So you ought. 
 
 . — ^Xo oflFend you so, indeed I never thought. 
 There that will do— but listen while I tell ye 
 How you must take some cakes, and fruit and jelly, 
 A bottle of sweet wine, but first decant it. 
 
 ,._.J)'oqI let us talk mamma^ supposed we chant it. 
 
 MOVBI 
 
 RIDIN4 
 
 
 
 Red 
 
 Duett. 
 
 
 
 MoTH] 
 
 RedIE 
 (Durii] 
 
 R. R. 
 
 
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 Riding Hood.^ 
 
 (P[!og^er) 
 
 To the cottage vp. tfce valley 
 Where your ancient grand^me. dwells. 
 Take this c^eiing^ — Do not dally 
 MiiG^ the lon^y brakes and f|^. 
 
 Yes iT—ITl hastMi to ifie valley 
 Through the woodland i^ld and drear, 
 On my way I will not dsal^ 
 Nor dialay^-rHny mother cteas.- ' 
 
 ^^ {tfc)?^lt.|^^®^^°«^*^^°*' 
 Wandering on beneath ^e shade 
 All dark and srIoomy^--'^ere no gleam 
 Faints with gSbd the g^»8(^ ghde." 
 
 Wolf 
 
 R. R. 
 
 ( 
 screan 
 
l^e iliese oakos, w dwgbter dearest 
 With ^is cream aiul summer flowers 
 Joy is her^s when tliou appearest 
 Qkeeret of her loiiely houn. 
 
 RioiNO Hood.— Yes ! hasten, &c. 
 
 (Toge&^r.) 
 
 (Exit mother into oottage,) 
 Red kiDiNO Mood.— When hungry wolves their lair had made> 
 B^etJth the thickets tangled shade, 
 I trembled, every limb with feap — 
 Whene'er I passed that wood so dreaiv 
 "B^oi now the hunters noble trade, 
 Has cheered us with his timely aid ; 
 And glittering 'neatb the sunny sky, 
 Our viMage boasts prosperity. 
 
 (Enter mother with basket containmg bottle &c.) 
 
 MOTHKg.-r 
 
 To the cottage in the valley) cso. 
 Red Ridino Hood. — 
 (During which, enter Wolf at bi>ck— unseen by B. R. H. or Mother) 
 
 Yes I rhasten, &c. 
 R. R. H. and Mothee.— 
 
 (and while R. B, H. and mother sing the above, the wolf sings.) 
 
 (Aside.) 
 
 What do I see ? a maiden fidrrr- 
 A tender morsel should be tiiere — 
 Those eyes so bright I how soft her hair I 
 Oh may I have her flesh to tear. 
 
 (Mother puts on Red R. Hood cloak for her.) 
 
 WoLP.-r(a8ide.) 
 
 Yes, Yes, I see, a maiden fiiir 
 
 Oh may I have her flesh to tear, 
 
 But first to rid me of the dame 
 
 Then counterfeit love's wasting flame. 
 R. R. H. and Mother. 
 
 To the cottage in the valley. 
 
 dear. 
 
 ThoiLwilt. I «^^y'|dau*terr 
 (Wolf rushes forward and plucks moUier oy the skirt wh 
 screams, ai^d Ea^i^-r-while B. iB. H. screams, runs to right hand 
 
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 Red Riding Hood. — (recit) Oh mother dear where art thou gone"? 
 
 WOLF comes forward to L. fi. 
 
 RiDiNQ Hood. — Just Heaven help me ! — i^iother, oh ! my mother, 
 She cannot hear me. (T/a* tool/ approaches) 
 
 (To the wolf.) . . - Sir I am another 
 
 Than her yoi seek — ^I do not know you, never — 
 Have had the — Cleave me — ^introduction ever — 
 WoLP. — (aside complacently.— L. H.) 
 
 Poor thing ! she's agitated ; how her heart is heading 
 These strong emotions rather spoil the eating 
 She'll soon be calmer — (thinking) 
 
 Say in a few hours 
 
 (Aloud) And then— ^em — ^Tll pay her my devours — 
 
 Dear creature? — do'nt be frightened — that's a 
 
 darling 
 It's all mjr fun, if you have heard me snarling, 
 Pray dont mistake me — ^I am not a thief 
 I love you tenderly, and pa<st belief — 
 You're dressed with tadte — and nothing is genteeler 
 Jroh YOUE clothes ! — do'nt take me for a peeler 
 I'd scorn the base insinuation to your cheek 
 I've got a muzzle but I'm not a heak 
 I've heard that ladies set much store on dress 
 (Aside.) I've re-assured her on that point — ^I guess. 
 Riding Hood. — In every nerve of my frail frame I tremble— 
 If I would live, I must my fears dissemble 
 Must soothe this savage beast so false of tongue 
 Subtle with age, deceitftil to the young. 
 Must veil the sickening horror that I feel 
 And tbis poor palpitating bosom steel ? 
 (Aloud.) Sir.'^this encounter^s quite unexpected 
 Is this path often by yotir grace selected ? 
 Wolf. — Oh very oft ! for I like you — shun all 
 
 And love a quiet constitutional 
 The path of duty here-to-fore, t'will prove 
 (Kneeling.) To-daj sweet Riding Hood the path of love- 
 Be mine — be mine — together we shall dwell 
 In some lone flower-wreathed, and, quiet dell 
 There shall we eat in bliss profound and deep 
 The ruddy apple, and the tender sheep, 
 And thoufith we'll share our morsels, thin or thick, 
 With you I'll never have a bone to pick. 
 Riding Hood. — My Lord is witty. — ^t'is a foud conceit 
 
 Of such pttention, I am hardly meet — 
 Wolf (aloud) You're meat enough for me— (aside) forsooth— 
 She's !io idea how I speak the truth. 
 
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 bhoa gone7 
 
 my mother, 
 aches) 
 am another 
 ou, never— 
 I ever — 
 
 rt is beaming 
 veating 
 
 n few hours 
 ^ours — 
 [ — that's a 
 
 marling, 
 ef 
 
 ; is genteeler 
 ' a peeler 
 sheek 
 
 n dress 
 
 less. 
 
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 ible 
 
 3 of tongue 
 
 !eel 
 
 ? 
 
 sted 
 
 ed? 
 
 •ove 
 nov€ 
 dwell 
 liet dell 
 nd deep 
 
 ;hin or thick. 
 !k. 
 
 )) forsooth— 
 
 WOLP.T-T 
 
 Riding Hood. 
 Wolf. — 
 
 Riding Hood. — ^My Lord,— I have a mother— tenderly beloved 
 From her to-day I have unduly roved 
 Let me go seek her ere the dark come on 
 To let her know the fortune I have won 
 To ask her blessing on our mutual vows i 
 
 And print fond kisses on her'anxious brows — 
 
 Wolf. — (aside.) I know the I^dy, rather fond of snuff, 
 
 A widow — ^most respectable — ^but touch ! 
 (Aloud.) Yes dearest Riding Hood,— the lengthening day 
 Warns you — ^no longer out of doors to stay — 
 
 Riding Hood. — ^Then of your presence I must be bereavea; 
 
 How glad I am I I mean — ^how much Tm grieved. 
 
 Wolf. — (smilingOMy person pleases you— my words beguile 
 (Affectedly) They tell me— I've a captivating smile. 
 
 Riding Hood. — (aside.) ^ ^ 
 
 An odious leer. — (aloud,) indeed it is most merry 
 A smile of sunshine — captivating — ^very ! 
 And do you like my whiskers dea» ? 
 
 'a........ ^V ICW, 
 
 I see you've joined the moustache movement too. 
 Of course I have — so juvenile and dashing 
 You'd wish to see your lover in the fashion ? 
 
 Riding Hood. — Yes dear— but — ^hem ! there yet remains one clause. 
 Can you support me ? 
 
 ^OLF. — What love I with my paws ? 
 
 Riding Hood. — ^No with your purse — 
 
 Wolf. — How dearest can you ask ? 
 
 With my long purse t'will be a grateful task 
 Through a long life with shade and shunshine 
 To show what jpwr«y-verance can effect. [flecked 
 
 Riding Hood. — (aside. — crossing L. H.) 
 
 Oh I'm so.thankfal ! can it be a dream_? 
 That this is real I can hardly deem 
 I fear I'll wake up in his cruel claws 
 And hear my bones all crackle in his jaws 
 But no — the Wolf is love sick— really smitten 
 An illustration of the bitter bitten. 
 
 Wolf, — (aside.) I've a plan — ^Two meals are more than one 
 I'll huiry onwvrd thro' the twilight dun. 
 And when successful — o'er my glass of wine 
 On three generations, in three courses ^e. 
 
 Wolf. — (aloud.) Now go my love — go seek your grandma's home 
 The path is straight, nor have you far to roam — 
 No cruel beasts within the forest prowl 
 No ugly bat, nor Cochin-China fowl.— 
 
 Riding Hood. — And there no double-headed eagle flies 
 
 With blood stained beak and duli red cruel eyes 
 
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 Slager to inrodp upon it's helpless prey 
 And goi^ge tai powerless to move iway ; 
 No cruel brigands who may rob or burk ye, 
 Not Bear to bully adeifeneeless Ttekey. 
 Wolf.— Go, go my loyo nor longer linger here, 
 
 Your iriuidina iraits you (ortwsmff to L. H. ana 
 
 tiSing bottle,) and the bottled beer 
 I see yon oaifry does not long keep clear 
 Here let me taste it (<o*c« the bottle and drinks) 
 
 vl^knous by Gad ! 
 
 (Finishes bottle and hands it back.) 
 
 (CNiroiiig.) Was ever stu£f so poisonous and bad I 
 
 Pin glad your grandaiiie did not tasto sueh K<juor 
 TVould oiily make the poor old creature sicker. 
 UroiNG Hood.— My Lord, it is the best of bottled beer, 
 
 Btrengthens the system, makes the voice more 
 wear. 
 Wolf.— What 1 clears the voice ? come on— rll chant a 
 
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 €hooSe you the subjccfr^loving, ^y or grave ? 
 Riding HdOi).^Hesitating and blushmg.) 
 
 ioying__my Lord — (aside.) I'd smg my own 
 
 death dirge 
 To rid myself of such a hateful scourge. 
 W'oLF.— Sing out then boldly— music is a feast. 
 
 Biding Hood.— WiSi charms to mollify the savage beast. 
 
 (They Sing.) 
 
 Biding Hood.— 
 
 Your words out pouring 
 Of love adoring^ 
 My peace restorfng 
 
 Made me relent 
 
 Wolf. — 
 
 
 Both. — 
 
 Blest be oiir meelwig ! 
 When at my greeting 
 And ibnd ^real^g. 
 
 Yoii blushed consent. 
 
 Hearts beat with pleasure 
 Loud to one measure 
 Love is a treasure .__ 
 
 From Heav% sent. 
 
 How could I dream of other eyes 
 Or think that life was gay . 
 How could I pnase the golden skies 
 When thou wer't far away I— 
 
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 All other eyes are dim to me 
 No smile but thine is gay 
 My very life is dead to me 
 While thou art far away ! 
 
 How could I dream^ &c. 
 ACT DROP FALLS. 
 
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 SCENE interior of Grand-mother's cottage — door in flat also cupboard 
 door on right hand, low couch, right hand — table with chairs 
 left hand. — 
 
 rNTRODUCTION.— Grandmother discovered knitting at table.— 
 
 Grandmother. — 
 
 Degenerate world I say — I've great misgiving — 
 » That after all 'tis not the place to live in, 
 All gratitude is gone, this lifes a bother. 
 My very daughter has forgot her mother — 
 Where is the cake, and wine she promised me ? 
 The morn's quite past, and now its half past three, 
 Her time was ten, — where is Red Riding Hood ? 
 It really puts one in a testy mood. 
 To wait all day. — The girls of modem days 
 Are quite degenerate in their ways — 
 They'll not make grandames such as I, I fear 
 I scarce look forty in my seventieth year. 
 So says the parson's son, a handsome youth. 
 (A. parson's son must always tell the truth,) 
 And if he says I look quite young and charming 
 Why not believe him ? — there can be no harm in — 
 Your modem men are always out of doors 
 Up to some nonsense, really horrid boors. 
 And to their mills each pleasure must be grist, 
 Clubs where they eat beafsteak and clubs for whist. 
 Give me this quiet vale where all is cosey 
 Where you know all, and every body knows ye — 
 Degenerate world I say — now let me peep out. 
 The girl that comes so late must mean to sleep out. 
 
 (goes to door and looks out.) 
 No, no, she's not in sight — ^I cannot see her. 
 Some harm has happen'd to the girl I fear I 
 She may have tumbled souse into the brook, 
 And there be drown' d — I'll have another look — 
 No she's not there — Oh may her life be spared 
 Degenerate girl !— I'll have the spare bed aired— 
 
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 And though her conduct to me's rather cruel 
 
 A dash of 1 . andy in a cup of gruel 
 
 Although it seldom does become a Miss 
 
 May well becomehet supper— but of this 
 
 Take my advice all ye I have my eyes on 
 
 Avoid the bottle as ye would rank poison '• , . . 
 
 Degenerate world !— once more I've great misgiving 
 
 That after all t'is not the place to live in. 
 
 Oh ! for a grand Trunk Railway, that would take us 
 
 Straight to the moon— I fear the sun might bake us, 
 
 But hev pale rays would raise our spirits quite 
 
 Beyond the Pale of Sorrow, day and nightr— 
 
 But for the present I must waste my worth 
 
 And live— Alas !— upon degenerate earth. 
 
 The Rail I fear is useless till next spring, 
 
 So to console me, I'll begin to sing. 
 
 (Sings.) BALLAD. 
 
 Within a bower so gay, 
 That beauties hand had made, 
 ^' A lovely rose one day, 
 
 Hung blushing in the shade — 
 A maiden fair pass't by, 
 With foot steps tripping light, 
 With modest down cast eye, 
 And smiles divinely bright. 
 She pluck'd that lovely flower. 
 But little thought the maid. 
 That e'en in one short hour 
 Heighho I Heighho ! 
 Beyond all earthly power 
 T'would languish droop and fade 
 Heighho ! Heighho 1 Heighho ! 
 
 She pluck'd that fragrant rose 
 
 She twined it in her hair 
 
 And nought more beauteous grows, 
 
 Than rose and maiden fair — 
 
 But soon all beauty pass'd 
 
 That flower she loved so well, 
 
 All scatter'd bjrthe blast 
 
 In fluttering circlets fell 
 
 Alas, alas she cried, 
 
 nnu«» -^^ni^lo lilro rrka(^» bloom 
 
 And sadly thus she sigh'd 
 Heighho! Heighho! 
 Borne on by natures tide 
 We sink into the tomb 
 Heighho! Heighho! Heighho! 
 
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 Why Tm quite out of breath, what can it be ? 
 ril lave my sorrows in a cup of tea, 
 And I would leave them altogether there, 
 Had I the power— for I've lots to spare. 
 Now for the tea-things. (Goes to cupboard.) 
 
 (Enter Wolf.) , , , . , i. ^ 
 
 Wolf.— (aside.) Hurrah ! the door's not lockea, 
 
 I rather guess the old one will be shocked 
 To see a visitor, just now, like me — 
 Ahem ! 
 Grandmother. — (not seeing him.) 
 
 Now then Til have a cup of tea. 
 (She turns round, runs against the Wolf, drops tea things, 
 rushes out at a side door and slams it after her.) 
 Wolf.— (coming forward.) 
 
 Ha, ha ! she's safe, there she may he and bellow 
 Before I let her out from yonder cellar — 
 I fear she'll make a toughish piece of meat. 
 Unless like tough beef steaKs, she's first well beat. 
 But what to do with her ? Aye there's the rub I 
 I know— ril send her to the beef-steak club 
 Or as they now are called, St. Hamel's Monks, 
 Who eat beef-steaks and bread in mighty hunks, 
 As did their ancient brethren without question, 
 Yet he who swallows her with good digestion 
 Altho' a monk— and doflfs the monkish frock 
 
 a while. 
 Must have a stomach like a Crocodile — 
 
 Wolf. — (picks up tea pot.) 
 
 What have we here ? — (tastes its contents.) 
 
 A most mysterious fluid 
 
 Mawkish and sweet— like luke warm mutton suet 
 Does the old beldame quaff aught else I wonder ? 
 
 (Looks round him.) 
 
 Ha ! can it be ?— no— yes— a bottle yonder 
 
 A large black bottle (takes and smells it) what a 
 
 perfect treasure I 
 Brandy — a quart — Hu? ' Ii ! imperial measure 
 No gills for me — ^just now two highly prized 
 They make a fellow horribly disguised, 
 
 Iioif »v.p..anro -npvpr af»f iVift soul OTi fire. 
 I go the whole thing Meux and co's entire, 
 (Takes a chair places his feel on table and drinks) 
 How pleasant is it with extended feet. 
 So quaff one's hitters ere one taste the sweetf 
 And then such sweets ! the joy half makes me wild, 
 
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 To dine on grandmama, mama, and child; 
 Oh tender Biding Hood so soft and mellow 
 (T'is true the rest's but leather and prunella) 
 A most substantial banquet for a sinner, 
 A quiet unpretending yam^7y dinner. 
 I saw once seated at her cottage door 
 This wretched woman smoking — she has store 
 • Of all things needful to produce that smoke, 
 Which folds the dreamer in it's gauzy cloak ; 
 
 (Indignantly. )I woul'dnt steal for all the world — ahem ! — 
 But all must act to me, as I to them 
 I gave the crone full many a sturdy rap. 
 And in return I've tasted of her tap^ 
 She piped her eye because I drank her swipes 
 It's only fair now I should eye her pipes ; 
 
 (Takes pipe, lights it, smokes, having first lit candle, thcii 
 coming forward with bottle in hand, Sings : — ) 
 
 SoNCi — Wolf. — 
 
 Fill, fill the cup before ye, 
 
 Brave Bacchus I adore ye. 
 
 Then drink — let us drink, 
 
 Let us drink for tomorrow we die. 
 
 Our souls we'll bathe in rosy wine. 
 
 And quaff it to the god divine. 
 
 Then drink — ^let us drink 
 
 In the cup we will drown every sigh, ; 
 
 Cares may oppress ye. 
 
 Sorrow distress ye. 
 
 Then drink mortal drink ! 
 
 In the goblet wash down every woe. 
 
 Hence with all sadness 
 
 Come mirth and gladness. 
 
 Drink mortal drink ! 
 
 Bid the nectar in torrents to flow. 
 
 Drink ! drink ! drink ! 
 
 Drink, for tomorrow we die, 
 
 &c., &c., &c. 
 
 (Looking out of the window) 
 
 She's coming — good ! my dinner's on the road. 
 
 From off my mind it takes a heavy load j; 
 
 Dear little dinner for which so long I've fished 
 
 You little know how soon you're to be dished ; 
 
 Ah perseverance never is in vain. 
 
 My worthy wolf! we'll have another drain ; 
 
 (Wolf puts the bottle to his mouth — disappointedly) 
 
 What nothing left ! no sauce for each sweet dish, 
 That wretched woman drinks like any fish 
 
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 (liOoks at the bottle again.) 
 
 The cork's stuck fast — no — this wants harder 
 tapping. 
 
 (Taps bottle on table — Cork comes out — wolf drinks.) 
 Now I call this a first rate sphit rapping, 
 A blessed medium makes the head much clearer 
 Ho, ho ! Red Riding Hood is coming nearer, 
 T'is very strange, and cause for much amazement 
 But as the grandame's hiding in the basement 
 ril just go down — surprize the dame 
 Hid there so snugly — ? 
 Death is a bitter cup but nought could make, 
 Her muf; more ugly — (exit.) 
 
 (Soft music.) 
 
 (Enter Riding Hood seats herself at the table — exhausted.) 
 tiDiNQ Hood. — Home — home at last ! thanks gracious powers above 
 I seek my home as the poor wearied dove 
 Drops to her nest, when down from the blue sky 
 She falls — fast followed by the hawks shrill cry, 
 Her home is reached, he may not enter there, 
 But baffled pauses — hovering in mid air 
 
 (Rising) But gracious ! what a most peculiar smell 
 Tobacco certainly — and spirits — ^well ! 
 Poor grandmama must be at her wits ends 
 Or entertained a party of her friends 
 Not a most choice one, for it seems they drink 
 Out of the bottle, and I rather think 
 They've only used one pipe, it's very clear, 
 They've had a dissipated party h'^re 
 That smoke half chokes me — do'nt feel quite the 
 
 thing 
 To raise my drooping spirits I must sing — 
 
 (Sings.) 
 Iallad. — (Riding Hood) — 
 
 '' THE HEATHER BELL. " 
 
 pAe words hy Mr. H, Drayton — The music hy Joseph F. Duggan. — 
 
 I love to wander o'er the hills, 
 And breath the mountain air so free, 
 With rapture then my bosom thrills 
 I revel in my liberty ; 
 I love my cottage home'tis there 
 Content and happiness I find. 
 My heart is ever free from care ! 
 For all are faithful true and kind, 
 And with my merry mountain lay, 
 Ctft in the valley then I go. 
 
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 All joyous as I take my way, 
 
 Down where the heather bells do grow. 
 
 Happy am I, I gaily sing, 
 
 And while the winter hours away. 
 
 And anxious watch the coming spring, 
 
 Where nature all seems blithe and gay ; 
 
 Sweet flowers I pluck by mountain stream, 
 
 And gaze upon their fragile forms. 
 
 And as I pluck them it would seem, 
 
 I shelter them from coming storms 
 
 I would not change my mountain home. 
 
 For all that wealth and pomp could show. 
 
 Give me the valley let me roam, 
 
 Down where the heather bells do grow. — 
 
 (Enter Wolf.) 
 Wolf. — Bravo — Bravissimo, I in raptures dwell 
 
 Encore, divine, enchanting, pretty well. 
 
 (Riding Hood screams and rushes L. H.) 
 
 Wolf (R. H.)— . . .^ 
 
 (Aside.) With tender flesh these strong emotions taint it 
 (Aloud.) This is an unexpected pleasure ai'nt it ? — 
 
 Do'nt take on so, or kick up all this bobbery. 
 There aint no murder done nor yet no robbery j 
 Riding Hood. — You love me sir ? 
 
 "VYoLF. Stomachically — yes- 
 
 RiDiNG Hood. — Must I then die ? — 
 
 Wolf. You must I rather guess 
 
 Riding Hood.— What die unshrived ? not one sin overlooked— 
 Die unprepared ? 
 
 Wolf. ^^ perfectly urwooJced 
 
 Your grandame's hidden where I can't discover 
 Or by this time her history would be over 
 This makes me all the hungrier — I know 
 Disguise is useless — death is present — So ! — 
 (Seizes her roughly.) 
 Riding Hood. — Oh spare me ! spare me ! let me live one hour. 
 (Wolf drags her towards the couch R. H.) 
 
 One hour my Lord — 1 do not ask for more 
 T'is a few minutes only let me live 
 Then my life— most cheerfully I'll give, 
 ( Wolf throius her mi the couch.) 
 
 You can but Kill me— ah I know your worst 
 Death is the worst — The spirit like a bird 
 - Will soar from earth — (faints) 
 
 Wolf ^. H.) Dramatic 'pon my word ! 
 
 But now to business quite k la Othello, 
 
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 He used pillow— well— I've no objection— 
 
 Strangling's a jjeath not easy of detection 
 
 But that's no object. 
 (^Solemn music, Blows out candle, Stage darJcned.) 
 (In a sepulchral voice.) 
 
 Welcome churchyard night, 
 
 Put out the lightr— and then put out the light. 
 (Enter grand mother and Chorus — ) . /• ;/ / 
 
 (As the chorus enter with torches gas to he raised to its fullest 
 
 kclght.) 
 
 FINALE. 
 (Exit Wolf) 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Oh what horror ! what grief ! what dismay ! 
 See our Queen— Is she dead ? oh revive her I 
 In pursuit of the wolf let's away I 
 We swear he shall not long survive her. 
 
 (Grandmother.) 
 
 Low in the dust let him perish I 
 
 In the woods quickly track and way lay him 
 
 So avenge the fair maid that ye cherish, 
 
 With your knives— haste, and ruthlessly slay him ? 
 
 Chorus. 
 Oh what horror, &c., &c. 
 
 Grandmother.— (recit.) , , , i n i ^« 
 
 But see she moves— hush she wakens from her 
 
 UDiNGHooD.-(sighs)AhI [swoon. 
 
 Mother— dearest mother where art thou ! 
 
 Grandmother. — .„ , , , 
 
 Thy mother will be here anon I 
 liDiNG Hood.— (Starting up and coming forward) 
 
 Ah ! where is the monster that attacked me f 
 
 Villager.— , , . , , 
 
 He perished by this hand — 
 
 liDiNG Hood. — 
 
 Ah I breath again — 
 
 IChorus.— (coming forward.) . ,. t j- 
 
 Ah what joy, to despair bid adieu 
 Let mirth and delight reign around 
 Let us quickly each pastime renew 
 And our Queen with garlansd be crown'd 
 
 IGrandmother. — • . ,,i.._. ..,._ 
 
 Though the villain tny life couiu uuvu uikcu 
 
 Thou art spared to thy friend^ -nd to joy— 
 
 Oh what bliss, from thy swo^_ chou didst waken 
 
 And our day has no cares to annoy. — 
 
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 CHORUS. 
 
 Oh what joy &o., &c. 
 
 RiDiJTQ Hood.— 
 
 I little thought that wolf had made 
 His lair beneath tl;e thickets shade, 
 I trembled every limb with fear, 
 When I beheld the wretch so near. 
 But now my friends so brave and true, 
 My life this day was saved by you 
 And gratitude indeed I owe 
 That you have dealt this timely blow — 
 
 Grandmother. — 
 
 Now a sermon I must preach 
 And have a word to say to each 
 Try my dears and all be good 
 Be warned by Little Riding Hood. 
 
 Chorus. 
 Ah what joy, &c., &c., 
 Hence away — Hence away, &e., &o. 
 
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