[They embrace penitently as Curtain falls.
xii.—CONRAD; OR, THE THUMBSUCKER.
(Adapted freely from a well-known Poem in the "Struwwelpeter.")
Characters.
Conrad (aged 6).
Conrad's Mother(47).
The Scissorman (age immaterial).
Scene—An Apartment in the house of Conrad's Mother, window in centre at back, opening upon a quiet thoroughfare. It is dusk, and the room is lighted only by the reflected gleam from the street-lamps. Conrad discovered half-hidden by left window-curtain.