ALL
(with a loud cry—intense delight—at the very top of their lungs).
Lincoln! Abe Lincoln!
[They run to meet him. He comes down center with an admiring group on each side.
NANCY LINCOLN
(looking up at Abe).
It wasn't really a holiday till you came.
[Lincoln smiles at her, and then turns to Tom Bush.
LINCOLN
(as he and Nancy and Tom Bush form a group at fire: the rest up stage, left).
What have you been doing, Tom?
TOM BUSH.
Fixing the fire, and now I'm going to see about getting the right sort of wood for the floor of a squirrel-cage. I caught a squirrel yesterday, and I———Oh, I forgot! You wouldn't be interested in that. You said yesterday that if you were me you would let the squirrel go.