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    Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children
    Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children
    Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children
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    Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children

    By Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell

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    "Nursery Comedies" by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 6, 2019
    ISBN4064066234027
    Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children

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      Nursery Comedies - Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell

      Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell

      Nursery Comedies

      Twelve Tiny Plays for Children

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066234027

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      WHAT HAPPENED TO HENNY PENNY.

      WHAT HAPPENED TO HENNY PENNY.

      H. P.—Oh dear me! Oh dear me! What was it, I wonder? What could it have been? I must scream for help. Help! Help!

      Enter

      Cockie Lockie

      .

      C. L.—What's the matter? Henny Penny, what is happening?

      H. P.—Oh dear me! I don't know what it was, that is the worst of it.

      C. L.—You don't know what it was?

      H. P.—How should I, when I never saw it? It fell on to my head.

      C. L.—What fell on to your head? What a stupid hen you are!

      H. P.—I was under a beanstack pecking about, and suddenly something fell from the top of the stack on to my head. I thought at first it was a bean or a piece of stick, but now I think of it, I am sure it was something much heavier—a piece of the sky, or something of that sort.

      C. L.—A piece of the sky falling out! But, Henny, this is serious.

      H. P.—Of course! That's what I feel. That's why I screamed at once for help.

      C. L.—You see, if the sky is coming to bits, I think the Queen of England ought to know it.

      H. P.—I think she ought. Let's go and tell her!

      C. L.—Agreed! We'll start at once. I'll just crow first very loud that everybody may know something is happening.

      H. P.—Very well, and I'll cluck.

      (They crow and cluck.)

      C. L.—Now, then, we can start.

      (A voice outside is heard.)

      Voice.

      —Hullo there! Cockie Lockie! Henny Penny!

      C. L.—There's that stupid Ducky Daddles.

      Enter

      Ducky Daddles

      .

      C. L.—Well, Ducky Daddles, what do you want?

      D. D.—I just wanted to come and have a chat. I saw you and Henny Penny starting off for a pleasant walk together, and I thought I'd come too.

      C. L.—Ah! but this is no common walk.

      H. P.—Indeed it is not.

      D. D.—Why, where are you going to?

      C. L.—We're going to London to see the Queen.

      D. D.—The Queen! What for?

      H. P.—To tell her a most important piece of news.

      C. L.—A great piece of the sky fell out close to Henny Penny's head, and nearly killed her.

      D. D.—Dear me! That is important. The Queen ought to know it at once. I'll come with you.

      C. L.—You! Do you think you can walk so far?

      D. D.—Oh, dear, yes! Besides, I daresay, we shall find some place on the road where we can get slugs or snails, or something of that sort, in case I feel faint.

      C. L.—Very well, then, are you ready? Now we'll start.

      D. D.—Come on, then. I'll just quack first to let people know where I am.

      (Quacks. They prepare to start off arm in arm. A voice outside is heard.)

      Voice.

      —Hullo! Cockie Lockie! Henny Penny! Ducky Daddles!

      C. L.—Now, what is it? We shall never get off at this rate.

      D. D.—It is that silly Goosey Poosey.

      Enter

      Goosey Poosey

      .

      G. P.—There you are, Ducky Daddles! I've been looking for you everywhere!

      C. L.—What do you want?

      G. P.—I just wanted to see what you were doing, and have a chat. What a horrid day it is! the roads are so dry there is no walking in them.

      D. D.—Well, I am sorry I've not time to stay with you. I'm just off to London to see the Queen.

      G. P.—You, Ducky Daddles! Something very strange must have happened to make you go so far.

      D. D.—Indeed it has, and what do you think?

      C. L.—Guess what fell on to Henny Penny's head.

      G. P.—An acorn, or perhaps even a chestnut.

      D. D.—A chestnut! Oh, if that were all! No, my friend. It was a piece of the sky, a great, solid slab of blue sky, that fell clump on to the top of poor Henny Penny's head, and nearly killed her.

      G. P.—Oh, how terrible! Have you sent for the police?

      C. L.—No, we're going to London to tell the Queen. We think she ought to know.

      G.

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