Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1910-10-20
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PROSPECT

(Scone-A street In q suburban
town. Dramatis personao: Bobby, on
one side Of the street, Nellie and Ro.
sale on the other. Tho conversation
b carried on at concert pitch.)
Bobby (who 10 twisting the rope Of
Q swing around and around. with his
own body thrust through the loop at
the end)-Hl, sassieS!
Nellie (who 10 seated primly on her
own front steps, with q doll on her
lap and Rosalie, who IL several years
younger. by her side)-There. Bobby
Burton. Just for that / won't invite
you to my party.
Rosalie knowing Q little closer 20
Nellie)-Are you going to invite me,
Nelliei
Nellie (puckering up her mouth
thoughtfully)-I guess 20. That 10,
I'll ask my mother n I can.
Bobby-Aw. g'wAnl I bet you amt
yoin' to have no party.
Nellie livery INDIGNANTLY am. too.
Bobby-Who said you could have .
party?
Nellie-It's none q your business.
Ny mother did. (She lowers her voice
q very little and turns her head toward
Resale. but IL careful to speak 30 that
Bobby can hear distinctly. Its going
to be the grandeSt party you ever saw.
There's going to be ice cream and
cake and candy, a thousand million
kinds Of candy and peanuts!" (She
takes her doll In her arms and rocks
back and forth ecstAticAlly). And
watermelon and ice-cream@"
BODY (cynically)yYou said that
before. and anyway 4 wouldn't be no
party II you didn't. Ice cream IL what
makes Il q party.
Nellie (pointed addressing RosAlie)
And Ice cream. Resale. and candy,
and peanuts and water
Bobby-Aw. Rosalie, RS all q fake.
I bet her mother amt goin' to let her
have no party.
Resale overwhelmed with the
splendor Of the prospective entertain.
ment and ignoring Bobby)-And you'll
invite me, won't you?
Nellie (condescendingly)-I'll ask
my mother II can. But anyway. I'll
save you some candy. We're going
to have two barrels full-pink and
white and red and every kind Of color.
and sticks Of candy and wen stick
them In lemons and oranges and suck
the Juice through.
Bobby ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS amt
no kind Of a party. Once I was to a
party and they had I'VE kinds Of ice
cream all stuck together, every old
color you could think of, and I had
three helpings.
(Rosalie signs rApturously, but Mel
He's nose Tits upward, while the cor
ners Of her mouth go down IN token
Of Bcorn.)
Nellie-There amt going to BE- any
snch pigs at my party. My mother
says II q person can't act like little
ladies and gentlemen they oughtn't to
ne invited to parties.
Bobby-Aw, l bet you amt goin' to
have no party, and n you do. I bet
they won't be ice cream enough TO 80
round.
Nellie Ito Rosalle)-There's going
to be gallons and gallons Of Ice cream,
Resale. and candy and macarois-
Rosalie-What's macaronis. Nellie?
Nellie-Oh. IT'S the lovellest little
cakes! Kind Of hard outside and
gquashy in the middle, and there's 90
ing to be about q bushel Of them at
my party. SOS everybody can have all
they want to eat and take lots Of them
home"
RosalIe-Oh, Nellie, please say
you'll invite me. I'll give you my 1T.
tie brown caterpillar that r found this
morning II you, win.
Nellie Internationally - oh, II
wouldn't take your caterpillar, Rosalle.
We've got oceans Of them IN our back
yard. But I'll ask my mother II can
ask you. You see. my mother thinks
such little ones as you might be more
In the way than the big ones like me.
But Ill try to get her to let me invite
you.
Rosalle (wistfully)-I wish my mo-
thOr would let me have q party. It's
going to be grand, amt II, Nellie?
Bobby (singing loudly)-Smarty,
smarty, had q party!
Nellie-Well, you won't get invited
70 any parties, and it's no wonder.
Horrid boyl
Bobby-Aw, I bet you amt gOln' to
have no party. When's It goin' to bel
Nellie with much dignlty)-lt's
going to be on my birthday, and that's