Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
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DOCTOR is exposed sitting on a stump of wood and blinking at the
sudden light) What do you think of that? JILL. Oliver! OLIVER (proudly). I thought of that in bed one night. Spiffing idea, isn't it? I've got some other ones in the plantation over there. Awfully good specimens. I feed 'em on rice-pudding. JILL. Can this one talk? OLIVER. I'm teaching it. (Stirring it up with a stick) Come up there. DOCTOR (mumbling). Ninety-nine, ninety-nine . . . OLIVER. That's all it can say at present. I'm going to give it a swim in the lagoon to-morrow. I want to see if there are any sharks. If there aren't, then we can bathe there afterwards. (The DOCTOR shudders.) JILL. Have you given it a name yet? I think I should like to call it Fluffkins. OLIVER. Righto! Good night, Fluffkins. Time little doctors were in bed. (He pulls down the blind.) JILL (lying down again). Well, I think it's a lovely island. OLIVER (lying beside her). If there's anything you want, you know, |
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