Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade

by Augusta Stevenson

FIRST COUNTRYMAN. A word with thee!

[The Wags stop.]

SECOND COUNTRYMAN. Dost thou not know us?

FIRST WAG. I have not that pleasure.

FIRST COUNTRYMAN. Thou didst talk with us but yester-eve!

SECOND WAG. Some mistake, I fear, my good man.

[The Wags start off.]

SECOND COUNTRYMAN (weeping). Wait! I pray thee, wait!

(The Wags stop.)

Canst thou not tell us who we are?