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Miss Civilization by Richard Harding Davis
page 18 of 41 (43%)
(Sternly.)
Turn it down there, please.
(REDDY lets light fall on tray.)
Why, that's cooking sherry you've got. You can't drink THAT! Let
me get you some whiskey.

REDDY:
(covering her with lantern)
No, you don't. That's not whiskey. It's benzine.

ALICE:
You don't mean to say that that benzine bottle is there STILL? I
told Jane to take it away.

REDDY:
(dryly)
Well, Jane didn't do it.

ALICE:
Now, isn't that just like Jane? I told her it might set fire to
the house and burn us alive.

REDDY:
It nearly burned me alive.

ALICE:
I'm so sorry.
(Takes from buffet a tray holding whiskey bottle, siphon, and three
glasses.)
Here, this is what you want. But, perhaps you don't like Scotch.
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