Children's Classics in Dramatic Form

<h2>THE TRAVELLERS AND THE HATCHET</h2> <p>TIME: <i>last week</i>.<br/> PLACE: <i>a high road</i>.</p> <hr> <table width="30%" align="center"> <tr> <td>FIRST TRAVELLER.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>SECOND TRAVELLER.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>THE CARPENTER.</td> </tr> </table> <hr> <p>[<i>The</i> TWO TRAVELLERS <i>journey along the road. A hatchet lies in the dust at one side.]</i><SPAN name="footnotetag1" name= "footnotetag1"></SPAN><SPAN href="#footnote1">¹</SPAN></p> <p>FIRST TRAVELLER (<i>seeing the hatchet, taking it up</i>).<SPAN name= "footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></SPAN><SPAN href="#footnote2">²</SPAN> Ah, see what I have found!</p> <p>SECOND TRAVELLER. Do not say <i>I</i>, but rather, what <i>we</i> have found.</p> <p>FIRST TRAVELLER. Nonsense! Did I not see the hatchet first? And did I not take it up?</p> <p>SECOND TRAVELLER. Well, then, claim the hatchet, since that is plainly your wish.</p> <p>[<i>Enter the</i> CARPENTER.]</p> <p>CARPENTER (<i>to First Traveller</i>). Aha, thief! Now I have caught you!</p> <p>[<i>He seizes the First Traveller.</i>]</p> <p>FIRST TRAVELLER. No thief am I, sir!</p> <p>CARPENTER. But my own hatchet is in your hand, sir. Come along to the judge, sir!</p> <p>FIRST TRAVELLER (<i>to Second Traveller</i>). Alas, we are undone!</p> <p>SECOND TRAVELLER. Do not say <i>we</i>. You are undone, not I. You would not allow me to share the prize; you cannot expect me to share the danger. I bid you good day, sir.</p> <SPAN name="image-012"></SPAN> <div class="figcenter"><SPAN href="images/012.png"><ANTIMG src= "images/012.png" alt="THE TRAVELLERS AND THE HATCHET" width-obs="100%"></SPAN></div> <SPAN name="2h2"><!-- h2 anchor --></SPAN> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />