Children's Classics in Dramatic Form - Book Two by Augusta Stevenson
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page 47 of 128 (36%)
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VAIN JACKDAW (_to himself_). How fine I would look in these peacock
feathers! ANOTHER JACKDAW. See how he sticks the feathers in among his own! YOUNG JACKDAW. See how he struts about in them! OLD JACKDAW. My son, take off those feathers! VAIN JACKDAW. It pleases me to wear them. OLD JACKDAW. Take them off, I say! VAIN JACKDAW. I will not take them off! OLD JACKDAW. Then you cannot stay with us. VAIN JACKDAW. I do not wish to stay with jackdaws. I will not walk with jackdaws. I will not talk with jackdaws. I think myself too fine for jackdaws. OLD JACKDAW. Then, jackdaws, we will think no more about him. Come, now, to find our breakfast! Come! [_They go. The_ PEACOCKS _enter._] VAIN JACKDAW. Good-morning, brothers. PEACOCKS. Ha, ha, ha! |
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