Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor
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Geo If you please, ask the dairy maid to let me have a seat in the dairy.
I am afraid of the draft, here. Dun Oh! you want to get out of the draft, do you? Well, you're not the only one that wants to escape the draft. Is that the dairy on top of that stick? [Points to pigeon house.] Geo No, my lord, that's the pigeon house. Dun What do they keep in pigeon houses? Oh! pigeons, to be sure; they couldn't keep donkeys up there, could they? That's the dairy, I suppothe? Geo Yes, my lord. Dun What do they keep in dairies? Geo Eggs, milk, butter and cheese. Dun What's the name of that animal with a head on it? No, I don't mean that, all animals have heads. I mean those animals with something growing out of their heads. Geo A cow? Dun A cow growing out of his head? Geo No, no, horns. Dun A cow! well, that accounts for the milk and butter; |
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