MR . BUNT
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music stops for a moment; again the stage is empty. Music:
The Fairies.
Now from all parts of the wood the little fairies enter. Delicately, rhythmically, they form a circle about the house and dance in the moonlight. The rattle of milk cans is heard and the music ceases.
The fairies fly as a heavy-set milkman, with a flash light, enters and leaves a bottle of milk by the doorstep. Exit milkman . Dawn comes and the cottage is now seen in
the early sunlight. It is a quaint, toylike house with a chimney and a peaked roof, the sides of which sag a little. A window in the second story looks out on
a little balcony. Below it is a green door. On one side of it a very large rain pipe descends at various angles and ends on the ground with a spout two feet in diameter, that looks at the audience inquiringly.
SCENE 2
The door of the cottage opens and the figure of a
little girl in a yellow gingham dress, with a shawl over her head, appears. She goes over and picks up the bottle of milk.
As she returns the door swings shut;
finding it is latched she calls loudly for Mummy.
After a moment the window above opens and aa rather frail but sweet-faced woman appears.
She leans
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