SCENE 6
[Same as first. Cat appears at left of center.]
Cat wags tail and rolls eyes. She may also growl softly.
The blissful lovers’ wedded lives
Were spent in joy and peace,
And from that fateful day and hour
Did happiness increase.
Cat blinks her eyes.
All through the changing years of life,
The cat remained their friend;
The blinking of her yellow eyes,
Her favor did portend.
Fly appears, and buzzes all around cat’s head.
She still sat on her pedestal
In dignified repose;
She would not move to brush the fly
That lit upon her nose.
Enter lover and maiden, from right of stage. Lover crosses to farther side of cat. They carry a pitcher of cream, and a plate of fish and spiders. Lover also carries a large comb.
Each morning with the rising sun,
Her fond attendants came,
For wilful carelessness or harm,
They never were to blame.
They offer food to cat.
Then stroke and comb her fur the wrong way. Cat hisses and spits, and wags her tail angrily.
They fed her on the richest cream,
And spiders by the score,
And combed her fur with loving touch,
When she could eat no more.
And so the Sacred Cat has played
Her part in great events,
If you would see her act again,
Admission is ten cents!
If the shadow play is not to be repeated, the last two lines may read as follows.
You will not see her act again,
For forty times ten cents.
