More Portmanteau Plays - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
HANK
I wouldn't have all this junk if you'd give it to me. No, sir, when I move I carry my house with me and there ain't much o' that now. (_Indicates his clothes_)
JONATHAN
All ready. Now you sit there.
[_Places Hank on the bench._
_He goes behind the screen and taps some bells._
HANK
What's that fer?
JONATHAN
That's to get ready.
HANK
Well, I'm ready.
[_Jonathan opens the curtain and discloses a scene from Zen.o.bia._
That's beautiful. It's just like real.
[_Jonathan pulls a figure across the stage._
h.e.l.lo, old man. That's the one I jus' seen. Where's the string?
[_Jonathan lifts the string._
JONATHAN
Here it is.
HANK
Now where's that feller goin' to?
JONATHAN (_coming out from behind the screen_)
Well, you see, _Zen.o.bia_--
HANK
_Zen.o.b_--G.o.d, what a name!
JONATHAN
They used to have names like that.
HANK
How d' you do it?
JONATHAN
Look, I'll show you a little.
[_He goes behind the screen and closes the curtain._
HANK
What you doin' that for? I like to see that picture.
JONATHAN
I'm going to show you how I do it.
[_Jonathan rings the bells._
HANK
All right. I'm ready. Let her go.
[_Jonathan opens the curtain and pulls a character on, then another._
JONATHAN (_in a.s.sumed voice_)
"Hail, n.o.ble duke."
"All is well, I ween."
HANK
Say, are they talkin' to each other?
JONATHAN
Yes.
HANK
Which is the n.o.ble duke?
JONATHAN (_pulling a string_)
