(Rap heard at door.)
Coq. Ah, here’s mamma! quick, hide in this, now, see!
(Puts him into barrel. Business.)
To-morrow meet me by the haunted tree.
(Throws cloth over top of barrel.)
I’ll have such fun to-morrow for an hour.
Capt. P. (Rising.) Look here, I say, this bawwel’s full of flour!
(She runs to him, forces him back and puts coverlet on again. Rap again. She goes to door and opens it.)
(Enter Rooster the Audacious, a big bundle of papers tied with red tape, under his arm.)
Roos. Miss Coquettina, is your Ma’ within?