Excerpt from Signs and Wonders
Though I tell Johnnie it"s his own fault. He shouldn"t have teased him.
[Enter R.a few thousand savages -with flint weapons.]
Second Man. Boys will be boys.
Woman. Which is no reason, I say, that they shouldn"t learn to behave themselves.
First Man. Can"t begin too soon, in my opinion.
[Exeunt savages: enter the population of India.]
Woman. He might have been killed if a man hadn"t come up and pulled the dog oft him. A black man, he was, too.
First Man. What? A nigger?
Woman. Or a Turk, or something. I can"t never see the difference. [With a shiver.] Ugh! I hate black men, somehow. The look of "em gives me the shudders.
Second Man [on a note of faint expostulation] My dear!
First Man. I"ve heard others say the same thing.
Woman. A pretty penny, Johnnie"ll cost us, with the Doctor and all.
[Enter two armies engaged in a Civil War]
First Man [shaking his head, wisely] Ah! I daresay it will.
Second Man. I don"t know what we"re coming to, what with wages and prices and Lord knows what all?
First Man. No more do I. Why, only yesterday.
[The rest of his sentence is drowned by the firing of a battery of heavy guns.]
Woman. Oh! well, I suppose it"ll all come right in time.
[The Civil War moves off L. Signs of the approaching end of the -world become manifest.]
First Man. We"ll hope for the best, I"m sure.
[The Hosts of Heaven appear in the sky.]
Second Man [reflectively] On the whole, I should say that things looked a bit better than they did.
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