How joy was found : $b a fantasyHutchison, Isobel Wylie
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How joy was found : $b a fantasy
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie
English drama -- Scottish authors; Verse drama
GONACHRY
I never heard him.
ANGUS
That’s because you’ve no sense of humour.
GONACHRY
[_Fiercely._]
I have a sense of humour.
ANGUS
Where is it, then?
GONACHRY
Up my sleeve.
[_He looks up his sleeve and gives a sarcastic grin._]
ANGUS
Well, nobody can see it there
But yourself, so you’d better take care.
If folk don’t see what you’re laughing at
They’ll end by laughing at you.
CONAN
[_Stooping to pick up a button._]
What’s that?
A button. Is it anywhere off me?
[_He looks himself all over._]
CONDHLA
What’s it like?
CONAN
Greenish-white. No, it’s not off me
As far as I can see.
ANGUS
[_Holding out his hand._]
Here, it’s mine. I burst it laughing.
[_Conan hands it over to him casually._]
CONAN
[_Lighting his pipe._]
Come on! It’s time we were at work again.
TORQUIL
Are you taking the boat out to-day?
CONAN
Ay.
[_Exit Conan, Condhla, and Torquil._]
ANGUS
[_To Finn._]
Aren’t you coming?
FINN
[_Abstractedly._]
Not to-day, not to-day.
GONACHRY
[_Laughing carelessly._]
He looks to me as if he had gone daft.
[_He slouches off after the others with his hands in his
pockets._]
ANGUS
It’s very queer the way he never laughed.
[_He goes up to Finn and gives him a hearty slap on the
back._]
Come, man! What ails you?
FINN
[_Throwing him off with sudden irritation._]
Get away, you gomeril!
ANGUS
[_Aside._]
He’s fey!
[_He makes a sign to keep off the evil eye, and retreats
hurriedly after the others, casting suspicious glances
backwards at Finn._]
FINN
[_Seeing himself alone, with a sigh of relief hoists his
rainbow resolutely and tightens his belt._]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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