Little Girl. I am so glad of that. We won't let India and Egypt get ahead of us, will we?
Maiden from America. Of course not. All good little girls must help too.
Little Girl. I shall always like cotton after this.
Spirit of Cotton (outside). Heigh ho! Ho heigh!
Maiden from America. I hear the Spirit of Cotton calling; I must go. (Goes out.)
Spirit of Cotton (leading a boy into the room). This is my friend Eli Whitney. (Goes out.)
Eli Whitney. I am the Spirit of Eli Whitney. I was born in Massachusetts in 1765. One day when my father went to church, I took his watch to pieces and put it together again. Then I thought I would go to Yale College. When I finished Yale College I went to Georgia. I heard everyone there talking about cotton. They were trying to find out how to get the seeds out of it more easily. I invented the cotton gin.
Little Girl. What happened then?
Eli Whitney. One man could now clean fifty times as much cotton as he could before.
Spirit of Cotton (outside). Heigh ho! Ho heigh!