The Birds' Christmas Carol
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II SOME OTHER BIRDS ARE TAUGHT TO FLY Scene: The kitchen of the "house in the rear." It is early morning, and the light is still dim even when aided by a kerosene lamp. The walls of the room are of any du...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II SOME OTHER BIRDS ARE TAUGHT TO FLY Scene: The kitchen of the "house in the rear." It is early morning, and the light is still dim even when aided by a kerosene lamp. The walls of the room are of any dull color and the general look of things, though denoting poverty, need not be sordid or untidy. To the right, front, is a door leading into a woodshed; in the rear wall, center, is a door leading to the alley; to the right and left of this are narrow, four-paned windows partly covered by sash curtains. In the left wall, to the front, is a door leading to a bedroom and the stairs which lead to the upper rooms. To the right, front, is an iron sink in wooden frame; before it stands a soap box, bottom upwards. A dishpan hangs on the side toward the audience. On the wall, to right of sink, is a cupboard. In line with the sink, to the back, is a small cook stove in which a bright fire is burning and on which are placed a steaming teakettle, an iron pot, and a large tin boiler pushed to the back. Between the stove and the sink, toward center of stage, is a small kitchen table covered by a brown oil cloth and meagerly set with dishes - a large pitcher, bowls and spoons, a bread-board, and a syrup pitcher. There are four stiff wooden chairs about the table. A small unlighted lamp is on the table. In the left corner, back, is a large screen fashioned of a clotheshorse covered neatly with coarse brown denimor burlap. Beneath the screen are visible the solid legs of a small wooden bed. The soft sides of the screen bulge, after the opening of the act, with the pressure of small bodies struggling into clothes. To the front, left, is a low wooden bureau. Over one corner of the looking-glass is hung a heavy chain of sea shells to which is attached an anchor carved from bark....
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