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he opens) Ladies and gents, cleaver purchased by Mrs Pearcy
to slay Mogg. Knife with which Voisin dismembered the
wife of a compatriot and hid remains in a sheet in the cellar,
the unfortunate female’s throat being cut from ear to ear.
Phial containing arsenic retrieved from body of Miss Bar-
ron which sent Seddon to the gallows.
(He jerks the rope. the assistants leap at the victim’s legs
and drag him downward, grunting the croppy boy’s tongue
protrudes violently.)
THE CROPPY BOY:
Horhot ho hray hor hother’s hest.(He gives up the ghost. A violent erection of the hanged
sends gouts of sperm spouting through his deathclothes on to
the cobblestones. Mrs Bellingham, Mrs Yelverton Barry and
the Honourable Mrs Mervyn Talboys rush forward with their
handkerchiefs to sop it up.)
RUMBOLD: I’m near it myself. (He undoes the noose)
Rope which hanged the awful rebel. Ten shillings a time. As
applied to Her Royal Highness. (He plunges his head into the
gaping belly of the hanged and draws out his head again clot-
ted with coiled and smoking entrails) My painful duty has
now been done. God save the king!
EDWARD THE SEVENTH: (Dances slowly, solemnly,
rattling his bucket, and sings with soft contentment)
On coronation day, on coronation day,
O, won’t we have a merry time,