SERGEANT: When a felon's not engaged in his employment POLICE: His employment SERGEANT: Or maturing his felonious little plans, POLICE: Little plans, SERGEANT: His capacity for innocent enjoyment POLICE: 'Cent enjoyment SERGEANT: Is just as great as any honest man's. POLICE: Honest man's. SERGEANT: Our feelings we with difficulty smother POLICE: 'Culty smother SERGEANT: When constabulary duty's to be done. POLICE: To be done. SERGEANT: Ah, take one consideration with another, POLICE: With another, SERGEANT: A policeman's lot is not a happy one. ALL: Ah, when constabulary duty's to be done, to be done, A policeman's lot is not a happy one, happy one. SERGEANT: When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling POLICE: Not a-burgling SERGEANT: When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime, POLICE: 'Pied in crime, SERGEANT: He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling POLICE: Brook a-gurgling SERGEANT: And listen to the merry village chime. POLICE: Village chime. SERGEANT: When the coster's finished jumping on his mother, POLICE: On his mother, SERGEANT: He loves to lie a-basking in the sun. POLICE: In the sun. SERGEANT: Ah, take one consideration with another, POLICE: With another, SERGEANT: A policeman's lot is not a happy one. ALL: Ah, when constabulary duty's to be done, to be done, A policeman's lot is not a happy one, happy one. (Chorus of Pirates without, in the distance) A rollicking band of pirates we, Who, tired of tossing on the sea, Are trying their hand at a burglaree, With weapons grim and gory. SERGEANT: Hush, hush! I hear them on the manor poaching, With stealthy step the pirates are approaching. (Chorus of Pirates, resumed nearer.) We are not coming for plate or gold; A story General Stanley's told; We seek a penalty fifty-fold, For General Stanley's story. POLICE: They seek a penalty PIRATES: Fifty-fold! We seek a penalty POLICE: Fifty-fold! ALL: They (We) seek a penalty fifty-fold, For General Stanley's story. SERGEANT: They come in force, with stealthy stride, Our obvious course is now—to hide. POLICE: Tarantara! Tarantara! etc. (Police conceal themselves in aisle. As they do so, the Pirates, with RUTH and FREDERIC, are seen appearing at ruined window. They enter cautiously, and come down stage on tiptoe. SAMUEL is laden with burglarious tools and pistols, etc.)