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A Fairy Play for Fairy People.
MAIDEN MONA THE MERMAID. A Fairy Play for Fairy People.
F. A. D.
TORONTO: BELFORD BROS., PUBLISHERS.
DUDLEY & BURNS, PRINTERS. HUNTER, ROSE & CO., BOOKBINDERS.
TO THE
THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN.
THE
Merry Little Party of Actors,
FOR
Whose Christmas Fun these Plays are Written,
THIS LITTLE VOLUME,
Affectionately Dedicated.
MAIDEN MONA THE MERMAID.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
CAST OF CHARACTERS.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE OTTAWA
New Year's Day, 1877.
THE GNOME KING HON. TERENCE BLACKWOOD. O'ROOSTER THE AUDACIOUS MR. EDWARD LITTLETON. GENERAL BOUNCE MR. ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. CAPTAIN POUNCE HON. BASIL BLACKWOOD. NOODLE CAPTAIN WARD, A.D.C. DOODLE CAPTAIN HAMILTON, A.D.C. MONA THE MERMAID LADY HELEN BLACKWOOD. COQUETTINA MISS MARGARET LITTLETON. THE FAIRY OF THE FOREST LADY HERMIONE BLACKWOOD. CORALINA LADY VICTORIA BLACKWOOD.
To-night, alas! another ship went down, I cannot bear to see poor sailors drown.
Good gracious! What is this? As I am alive, Why, it's a man! I know it is!
I'll dive! I won't! I will! No! Shall I? Will it bite? It's not a shark? It's put me in a fright. Mona! you silly goose! This palpitation Is strange perhaps, but not a bad sensation. I rather like it. Is it fear? No question! I'm not afraid! Perhaps it's indigestion? I'll take another peep.
He's charming, really! If I could take him home I'd like to dearly. How nice he'd be to play with! Shall I try? He's fast asleep! I'm sure he wouldn't die.
His clothes are wet, perhaps he's shipwrecked, too.
Good evening, sir.
PRINCE DOODLE. Good evening. How d'ye do?
Where am I? Who are you? What's this? It's water!
MONA. Tell me your tale, for stories I love well.
PRINCE DOODLE. Story; why bless you! I have none to tell; Only last night, a-sailing on the ocean, There came a squall, at least so I've a notion. It stormed! it blew! it rained! the lightning crashed! We pitched and rolled, and tossed, the thunder flashed; The wind, it rose and howled, and so did we.
MONA. That's very queer!
"Stand by to hoist the to'gallant sheet anchor! Take a pull on the weather lee scuppers, my hearties! Let the mizzen binnacle go with a run!"
MONA. I like to hear you talk. Go on! What fun!
PRINCE DOODLE. That's all.
MONA. That's not the end?
PRINCE DOODLE. 'Twon't take a minuit. The ship she gave a lurch; and--left us in it. Then to a hen coop clung the crew of forty-five;
MONA. They're drowned?
PRINCE DOODLE. Oh, not at all; they're all alive. They flew away.
MONA. What, men!
MONA. Ah! Don't!
MONA. Oh, dear!
PRINCE DOODLE. Your marrow!
PRINCE DOODLE. I have an uncle!
MONA. Not uncommon, surely.
PRINCE DOODLE. Some years ago, my poor papa, felt poorly; Took to his bed, and--died--they say most queerly. My uncle deals in magic? See you?
MONA. Clearly!
MONA. Oh! what a dreadful man!
MONA. The diamond mountain of the Gnome King, see
It's full of diamonds: full as full can be.
PRINCE DOODLE. What's that you say? That mountain! It's all rock. Diamonds inside! Oh, come! you only mock! I'd like to see my brother--
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