MR . BUNT
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THE DEEP VOICE OF THE SANDMAN
The fairy world is closed to you. Music : The Forgotten Fairies.
SCENE 14
Again the bridge appears and by it stands the Sandman in silhouette. SANDMAN
They come theforgotten fairies. Slowly mounting the arch into the Maple Tree
climb a number of bedraggled, queer little creatures, stopping to look back at the world below . In pathetic silence they hold out their little arms to it for the last time and then dis appear into the shadow of the Maple Tree. The Sandman repeats quietly :
The forgotten fairies. MR. BUNT
Sadly. Didn't the children want them any more ? SANDMAN
They grew up and forgot them. Forgot how much they needed them , and they will never know what the trouble with life is, now they have lost their fairies. MR. BUNT
Do they live in the tree ?
