STRAW. What's the trouble?
COAL. No one knows.
[_Enter_ SNOWFLAKE _with a pail of water._]
SNOWFLAKE (_looking about_). Where's Sausage?
STRAW. She is flavoring the vegetables.
[_Sausage comes out of the pot._]
SNOWFLAKE. Here is the water, Sausage.
[_Sausage does not answer._]
SNOWFLAKE (_speaking louder_). Will you come for the water, Sausage?
SAUSAGE (_sharply_). No, madam, I will not!
THE OTHERS (_with surprise_). Sausage!
SAUSAGE. I've been slave here long enough!
THE OTHERS (_as before_). Sister Sausage!
SAUSAGE. I mean just what I say!
SNOWFLAKE. Have I not done my share of the work?
COAL. Have I not done my share?
STRAW. Have I not done my share?
SUGAR LOAF. And have I not done my share?
SAUSAGE. Please to tell me what you do.
STRAW. I bring in wood that Coal may make the fire.
COAL. I make the fire that the pot may boil.
SNOWFLAKE. I draw the water and bring it from the brook.
SUGAR LOAF. I lay the table nicely.
SAUSAGE. What do I? Eh? What do I? I must stand over the fire. I must not
only stir the dinner, I must flavor it with myself. For each of you there
is one duty. For me there are plainly three.
STRAW. But, sister--
SAUSAGE (_interrupting_).
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