PLACE: _a high road_.
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FIRST TRAVELLER.
SECOND TRAVELLER.
THE CARPENTER.
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[_The_ TWO TRAVELLERS _journey along the road. A hatchet lies in the dust
at one side._][Footnote: The explanations in _brackets_ may be read by the
teacher.]
FIRST TRAVELLER (_seeing the hatchet, taking it up_).[Footnote: The words
in _parentheses_ are not intended to be read aloud; they will give the
child the cue as to how the part should be rendered.] Ah, see what I have
found!
SECOND TRAVELLER. Do not say _I_, but rather, what _we_ have found.
FIRST TRAVELLER. Nonsense! Did I not see the hatchet first? And did I not
take it up?
SECOND TRAVELLER. Well, then, claim the hatchet, since that is plainly your
wish.
[_Enter the_ CARPENTER.]
CARPENTER (_to First Traveller_). Aha, thief! Now I have caught you!
[_He seizes the First Traveller._]
FIRST TRAVELLER. No thief am I, sir!
[Illustration: THE TRAVELLERS AND THE HATCHET]
CARPENTER. But my own hatchet is in your hand, sir. Come along to the
judge, sir!
FIRST TRAVELLER (_to Second Traveller_). Alas, we are undone!
SECOND TRAVELLER. Do not say _we_.
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