“Up the airy mountain, and down the rushy glen/We dare not go hunting...” – Tinker, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ... Movie Quotes Database

[quoting William Allingham's poem "The Fairies"]

Up the airy mountain, and down the rushy glen/We dare not go hunting, for fear of little men. Nobody ever goes in. (pointing at Wonka's factory) And nobody ever comes out!

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