Anita S Trial Or Our Girls In Camp

Excerpt from Anita's Trial: Or Our Girls in Camp, a Comedy in Three Acts for Female Characters Only Camping ground in a clearing of the woods. At back a rustic hut or "lean-to," the whole front open to audience. One side, a small tent. Enter, L., Mary and Helen, carrying kettles, fishing-poles, paddles, blankets, etc. Mary. How natural it all looks! Helen. Yes, not a leaf altered! Mary. The old lean-to almost as good as ever. (They stand paddles and fishing-poles against lean-to, and throw down rest of loads.) Hel. Those might be the very violets we picked last year! Mary. And these the very eggshells we scattered. Hel. And here are some old tomato cans! Come, let's toss them into the lake, so as not to offend Clover's artistic eye! What will you give me if I hit the old willow? (Aims can.) Mary. What, Kate's willow.? The fatal willow.? Hel. (throwing can offstage, L.). There! How's that? Mary. I'll go you one better. (Takes deliberate aim, right arm raised.) (Enter Nan, L., with camera.) Nan. I just dodged a tomato can on its hurried way to the lake. Oh, do just keep that position a moment, Mary; it's awfully suggestive. (Sets up camera.) Mary. Well, be quick about it. (Enter Aunt Matilda, L., with cap-bag, leaning on arm of Clover, who carries parasol over Aunt Matilda's head.) Clover. Well, here we are. (Closes parasol.) How secluded the place is! You'd never dream the highroad to the city ran so close. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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