18. Sylvia asks
her younger brother to go on an errand for her;
he does not wish to
go; the conversation becomes spirited.
19. Grandmother entertains another old lady at afternoon tea.
20. A working man
is accused of stealing a dollar bill from the
cook in the house where
he is temporarily employed.
21. Mary Sturgis
talks with her mother about going away to
college.
22. A young man
talks with his sister about woman’s suffrage;
they become somewhat
excited.
23. A middle-aged couple talk about adopting a child.
24. There is a
strike at the mills; some of the employees
discuss it; the employers
discuss it among themselves.
25. An aunt in
the city has written asking Louise to visit her;
Louise talks with several
members of her family about going.
26. Two boys talk
about the ways in which they earn money, and
what they do with it.
27. Albert Gleason
has had a run-away; his neighbors talk about
it.
28. Two brothers quarrel over a horse.
29. Ruth’s new dress does not satisfy her.
30. The storekeeper
discusses neighborhood news with some of
his customers.
31. Will has had
a present of a five-dollar gold-piece; his
sisters tell him what
he ought to do with it; his ideas on the
subject are not the
same as theirs.
32. An old house,
in which a well-to-do family have lived for
many years, is to be
torn down; a group of neighbors talk about
the house and the family.
33. A young man talks with a business man about a position.
34. Harold buys
a canoe; he converses with the boy who sells it
to him, and also with
some of the members of his own family.
35. Two old men
talk about the pranks they played when they
were boys.
36. Several young men talk about a recent baseball game.
37. Several young men talk about a coming League game.
38. Breakfast is late.
39. A mysterious
stranger has appeared in the village; a group
of people talk about
him.
40. Herbert Elliott
takes out his father’s automobile without
permission, and damages
it seriously; he tries to explain.
41. Jerome Connor
has just “made” the high school football
team.
42. Two boys plan a camping trip.
43. Several boys
are camping, and one of the number does not
seem willing to do his
share of the work.
44. Several young
people consider what they are going to do
when they have finished
school.
45. Two women talk about the spring fashions.
II. Choose some familiar fairy-tale or well known children’s story, and put it into the form of a little play for children. Find a story that is rather short, and that has a good deal of dialogue in it. In writing the play, try to make the conversation simple and lively.