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Snickerty Nick

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[Mocking and clapping their hands with the rhyme]

Pease porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot,
The Giant’s growing old!

CHILBLAINS

Give him the cold shoulder.

[Winter and gnomes turn left shoulder toward him.]

Ha! Ha! Look at your nose now!

DWARF

You are disturbing my rest with that beastly noise. Go away, I want to sleep.

GIANT

Get out of my garden. Go to the North Pole, there’s where you belong. I wish you would go

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