(Advance Annabel, Dennis, Etta, Curiosity and Joshua.)
Teacher. “Now Annabel, you tell me this. If to the right of you is the South, and on your left the North, and in front of you the East—what’s behind you?”
Annabel thinks a moment, then starts to cry. “Boo hoo! I knowed it. I told ma you’d see them buttons missin’ off my waist.”
Teacher. “Ridiculous! I mean the West. Now listen children! Does anybody remember what the population of China is?” (All shake heads negatively.)
Teacher. “Well, the population of China is so great that two Chinamen die every time you take a breath.”
(Etta immediately starts purring furiously. Keeps it up until spoken to.)
Teacher. “Dennis Dockerty go to the board and draw the map of New Jersey.”
(Dennis goes, but draws instead a tree, one branch of which is longer than the others, and has on it three disks representing fruit.)
Teacher (just then observing Etta’s flushed face and energetic puffs): “Why Etta Elephant, what’s the matter? What on earth are you doing?”
Etta Elephant. “Killing Chinamen. I never did like them foreigners what me father calls aliens, and I’m getting rid of them as fast as I can.”