Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children

Twelve Tiny Plays for Children BY LADY BELL NEW IMPRESSION LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1911
TO Hugo, Elsa and Molly.
Four of the following little plays, viz.: Cat and Dog, The Wigwam, Rather a Prig, and Foolish Jack (from Grimm), are adapted from the Petit Théâtre des Enfants , by the same author. Three of them, Cinderella, The Golden Goose, and What Happened to Henny Penny, are versions of well-known stories.
H. P.—Oh dear me! Oh dear me! What was it, I wonder? What could it have been? I must scream for help. Help! Help!
Enter Cockie Lockie.
C. L.—What's the matter? Henny Penny, what is happening?
H. P.—Oh dear me! I don't know what it was, that is the worst of it.
C. L.—You don't know what it was?
H. P.—How should I, when I never saw it? It fell on to my head.
C. L.— What fell on to your head? What a stupid hen you are!
H. P.—I was under a beanstack pecking about, and suddenly something fell from the top of the stack on to my head. I thought at first it was a bean or a piece of stick, but now I think of it, I am sure it was something much heavier—a piece of the sky, or something of that sort.
C. L.—A piece of the sky falling out! But, Henny, this is serious.