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 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 ?