Nursery Comedies. Bell Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe
Then I believe I saw two great eyes looking at me.
M. – Two great eyes?
Jack. – Then I am certain I saw the point of a hairy ear, the sort of point that a great monster's ear would be sure to have.
M. – Then, of course, now we won't go into the garden.
Jan. – I've just thought of the most terrible thing!
Jack. – What is it?
M. – What is it?
Jan. – (Covering her face.) That Tiny is in the garden!
M. – And he will be eaten alive!
(Covering her face with her hands, and sobbing loudly.)
Jan. – What shall we do? We can't leave him to die.
Jack. – (Valiantly.) No, we can't. I will go and save him.
M. – Oh, you brave boy! We'll come too.
Jack. – Come, then! I've got my knife.
Jan. – And I'll take my new scissors.
M. – And what shall I have? Oh, I'll take two large hairpins to stab him with.
Jack. – That's right. We'll stab him through the heart.
Aunt Mary. – Why, my dear children! How warlike you look!
Jack. – And well we may! We're going into the garden to kill the most terrible monster.
A. M. – Oh, I see, you are pretending to be warriors.
Jan. – No, indeed! We are not. It is a real monster in the garden. Jack has seen him – part of him, at least.
A. M. – And what was he like?
Jack. – He's an enormous animal, with great flaring eyes, and long hairy ears.
Jan. – And probably horns and tusks, but we're not quite sure, because he was behind the bushes.
M. – And we are so dreadfully afraid he will kill Tiny.
A. M. – Oh no! He won't find Tiny – Tiny is hidden behind the laurels near the conservatory, eating a mouse which he has just caught.
Jack. – Behind the laurels near the conservatory! Then he will certainly be killed! The monster is there too! That is where the growls came from!
A. M. – Ha! ha! Now I see it all! Why, the monster that Jack saw and heard, is simply Tiny, who was growling because he feared his mouse would be taken away from him.
Jack. – Are you sure?
Jan. – Was the monster Tiny?
A. M. – Evidently. I've just seen him there myself.
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