He was seen first by the gravedigger, a man who was nearly blind, and who did not trust his eyes to tell him that a tiger, braced on its hind legs, was rummaging through the churchyard garbage heap, mouthing thistles in the early-morning sunlight.

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Brook adds an Irish jig to the gravedigger scene, and has Polonius play a tune on the cushion while instructing Ophelia.

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