Corabell, Good-sized girl, well padded to be fat, very short skirt, hair with big bow at each side of face.
Sarah Jane, Rather small size, dressed much too old for age, hair crimped, old-style gown.
Stage arrangement—Pupils sit on benches along back of stage; small table for teacher at one side with books, bell and long ruler. Stand with water pail and dipper, dinner pails hanging on wall, also children’s wraps; some decorations of evergreen and Merry Christmas pinned on wall in letters of various sizes and colors. Visitors sit in chairs at sides of room.
[Christmas Speakin’ at Skaggs’s Skule]
Teacher (tapping bell loudly)—Now, children dear, I hope you will all be very, very good and very, very quiet while we have our entertainment. What kind of an entertainment is it to be, children? (a pause) W’y, children, don’t you know what kind of an entertainment it is going to be?
Virgil—Wal, I think it’ll be a fust-rate good ’un if none of ’em don’t fergit their pieces.
Sam—W-w-w-w-w-wal, I w-w-w-w-w-won’t f-f-f-f-fergit mine if I d-d-d-d-don’t git b-b-b-b-b-bashful.
Sarah Jane—Huh, you bet you I won’t git skeered—I haint fraid o’ nothin’. I wouldn’t be skeered to speak if they was a grizzly bear here.