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Read Ebook: Swat the Fly!: A One-Act Fantasy by Gates Eleanor
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INSPECTOR
I've been keeping an eye on you.
DOCTOR
Well, go ahead! What is it you want to know?
INSPECTOR
I want to know what you do to these poor, dumb creatures.
DOCTOR
I use them to fight the diseases carried by flies.
INSPECTOR
Oh, you vivisectionists have a FINE excuse for your cruelty! Flies!
DOCTOR
Yes, flies! When all the flies are dead, we doctors will be out of a job. For now we know that--
INSPECTOR
Please come back to the animals.
DOCTOR
Well, this monkey here is-- Look out! He's bad-tempered!
INSPECTOR
Ah! You needn't tell me how you treat HIM! And what about that helpless rabbit?
DOCTOR
The rabbit furnishes me with typhoid serum. And the neck of my horse is full of the serum that cures diphtheria. See! I'll take some serum--just to show you. Here, back! Back up! Whoa, now!
INSPECTOR
Oh, don't! I can't bear it! Don't! Don't, I say! Oh, I'll have you arrested for this!
DOCTOR
There! You see what THAT amounts to.
INSPECTOR
Oh, don't try to fool me! You hurt him!
DOCTOR
Not more than the flick of a whip.
INSPECTOR
There you are! The flick of a whip! What do you doctors care about the agony of your poor victims!
DOCTOR
I don't cause pain unless it's necessary.
INSPECTOR
Necessary! You shouldn't be allowed to cause an animal ANY pain!
DOCTOR
Oh! Then, of course, you're a vegetarian.
INSPECTOR
I am not!
DOCTOR
Well, I AM! You talk about pain! Do you know how lambs are killed? And cattle? Do you know anything about slaughtering hogs? THERE'S pain for you!
INSPECTOR
We must have meat!
BOY
And my father's going to bring us some venison.
DOCTOR
Your father?
BOY
He's gone to the mountains--to hunt and fish.
INSPECTOR
Hush!
DOCTOR
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