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What's that shining yonder?

THE BUTTON-MOULDER

Only light from a hut.

PEER

And that wailing sound-?

THE BUTTON-MOULDER

But a woman singing.

PEER

Ay, there-there I'll find
the list of my sins-

THE BUTTON-MOULDER [seizing him].

Set your house in order!

[They have come out of the underwood, and are standing near the hut. Day is dawning.] PEER

Set my house in order? It's there! Away!
Get you gone! Though your ladle were huge as a coffin,
it were too small, I tell you, for me and my sins!

THE BUTTON-MOULDER

Well, to the third cross-road, Peer; but then-!
[Turns aside and goes.]

PEER [approaches the hut].

Forward and back, and it's just as fa