His mother awakes, to find dinner set, and ready.
There is great fun over the pudding when the widow finds the bean.
End of First Act.
Second Syllable.
STALK.
Scene.—Corner of market-place, where a flower-seller has her stall. For this purpose a table, draped with art muslin, with a few pots of ferns on it, and some flowers made from tissue paper, will be all that is required.
Girl sits on a stool doing up bunches of flowers.
Jack comes along running, and in his hurry knocks the table over.
Flower-seller pretends to be very angry, and insists upon Jack’s paying for the damage.
He does so, and the girl laughingly gives him the stalk of a flower for fun. He puts it in his button-hole and walks off, leaving the girl laughing.
End of Second Act.