Charles. Too expensive this winter.
Clara. Birch will do just as well—nobody knows the difference. Listen! is he coming back?
Reporter [in the doorway]. Excuse me—listen. Mr. Hibbard says you've given him the wrong package. He says you need this to go with the picture of your grandmother. And he says, sir, that you need to get wise to your own family. He's waiting for me. Good-night! [Exit.]
Charles [angrily]. Get wise to my own family? He may know all about art [undoing the picture], but I guess I know my own relatives. [Holds up picture so that audience can see it, but he can't.] And if that isn't a picture of my own cousin Paul, I'll eat—[sees Clara laughing]. What the devil! [Looks at picture, which represents George Washington.] Clara! you did that! [laughs uproariously]. You little cheat!
[Curtain.]
THE MEDICINE SHOW
A Comedy
By Stuart Walker
Copyright, 1917, by Stewart & Kidd Company.
All rights reserved.