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Childrens Classics In Dramatic Form Resale Rights Ebook

Childrens Classics In Dramatic Form Resale Rights Ebook
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The MERCHANT and his WIFE are at supper.

WIFE. Our neighbors bought some fine olives to-day. It has been a long time since we have had olives. I am quite hungry for them.

MERCHANT. Now you speak of olives, you put me in mind of the jar which Ali Cogia left with me.

WIFE (pointing to a jar in another part of the room). There is the very jar waiting for him against his return.

MERCHANT. Certainly he must be dead, since he has not returned in all this time. Give me a plate; I will open the jar, and if the olives be good, we will eat them.

WIFE. Pray, husband, do not commit so base an action. You know nothing is more sacred than what is left to one’s care and trust.

MERCHANT. But I am certain All Cogia will never return.

WIFE. And I have a strong feeling that he will. What will he think of your honor if he finds the jar has been opened?

MERCHANT. Surely a jar of olives is not to be guarded so carefully, year after year.

WIFE. That is Ali Cogia’s affair, not ours. Besides, the olives can’t be good after all this time.

MERCHANT (taking a plate). I mean to have a taste of them, at least.

WIFE (indignantly). You are betraying the trust your friend placed in you! I will not remain to witness it.

She leaves the room. The Merchant crosses and takes cover from jar.

MERCHANT (looking in jar). My wife was right—the olives are covered with mould, but those at the bottom may still be good.

He turns the jar up and shakes out the olives. Several gold pieces fall out.

MERCHANT. What is this? Gold pieces! As I live! Gold! gold!

He shakes the jar again; a shower of gold pieces fall.

MERCHANT (dropping the jar in astonishment). A thousand pieces at least!

The top of the jar only was laid with olives! (He puts the gold into his pockets.)

To-night, when my wife is asleep, I will fill the jar entirely with fresh olives, for these show they have been disturbed. And I will make up the jar so that no one, except Ali Cogia himself, will know they have been touched.

Illustration: “A THOUSAND PIECES AT LEAST!”

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