"Who gets this must make the fire."
SUGAR LOAF (_drawing; reading from slip_). "Who gets this must draw the
water."
SNOWFLAKE (_drawing; reading from slip_). "Who gets this must stir the pot
and flavor it with herself."
COAL (_drawing; reading from slip_). "Who gets this must lay the table
nicely."
SAUSAGE (_reading from last slip_). "Who gets this must bring the wood."
Well, that pleases me! Straw, see if the fire needs wood.
(_Straw hesitates._)
Come, come, do your duty!
[_Straw crosses the hearth and looks into the fire. He is very careful, but
the fire reaches him and he is gone in a puff!_]
SNOWFLAKE. Poor Straw! Well, 't is my duty to stir the pot and to flavor it
with myself.
[_She crosses to the hearth, but just as she reaches it, she disappears
without so much as a cry._]
SUGAR LOAF. Poor Snowflake! Well, 't is my duty to draw the water.
[_She forgets that the pail is full, falls into it, and is seen no more._]
COAL. Poor Sugar Loaf! Well, 't is my duty to lay the table nicely.
[_He forgets that he is still burning from having lately tended the fire.
As he places the plates, the tablecloth catches fire and wraps itself
around him._]
COAL (_from inside the burning cloth_).
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