Clerk. Red candy?
Annie. No, sir. Mamma says white candy is best for little girls.
(Clerk wraps stick of candy in paper, and takes the cent. Little girls walk away, hand in hand. Annie lets Celia taste. Celia and Annie go out.)
(Enter Mrs. Highfly, fashionably dressed, with trail, veil, waterfall, reticule, parasol, &c.)
Clerk (with polite bow). Good-morning, Mrs. Highfly.
Mrs. Highfly. Have you any canary-seeds? I wish to get some for my bird.
Clerk. We have all kinds of flower-seeds, ma’am.
Mrs. Highfly. Those won’t do. Have you nice prunes?
Clerk. We don’t keep prunes. We have some very nice squashes, ma’am. (Takes long-necked squash from behind the counter.)
Mrs. Highfly. What do you ask?