It certainly does take the fiddle to make old bones feel young again.
Where are you going, Susy?

SUSY
(taking up her basket and indicating left).
Off to the stables.

AUNT RACHEL
(center).
And where are you going, Lucy?

LUCY.
Up to the house with this bunch of roses for Mistress Washington.

SUSY.
Look! Here comes Nelly from the house now.

NELLY
(running down from background).
Have you-all heard the news? This is the day that Master George is
leaving for his surveying trip with Lord Fairfax. See! Mistress
Washington is coming to speak to us now!

[All look in the direction of house. Madam Washington is seen
approaching from the background, center, a stately figure in Colonial
dress, her hair slightly touched with gray. Cries of "Good-morning,
Mistress Washington! Good-morning!" Children skip up and down. Baskets,
hoe, and rake are alike forgotten. Madam Washington stands in center,
and the plantation children are grouped in a wide semicircle about her,
so that all she does is in full view of audience. Lucy presents Madam