Scene 13. School Composition

[Screens announce scene and Chorus begins Entracte: "I Went to the Animal Fair".]

[Adult actor appears in spotlight of center stage before the curtains in the "Sunday clothes" of a small boy: velvet jacket, flowing bow tie, short pants, long stockings. He bows from waist like a boy, then reads from a paper in his hand.]

The Elefant

The Elefant is the most larjist Annymile in the whole world. He eats hay and cakes. You must not give the Elefant Tobaker, becos if you do he will stamp [gestures] his grate big feet upon you and kill you fatally Dead. [Pause.] Some foks think the Elefant is the most noblest Annymile in the world. But, as for me, give me the American Egil and the Stars and Stripes.

                                                                    Alexander Pottles, His Peace