FLOYD I’m ready to go. _Begins leaving table._ OPAL So am I. JENNIE Let me wipe your hands before you go. _Wipes their hands and mouths._ FLOYD _As he begins leaving stage before Opal is ready._ Hurry up, Opal! OPAL I’m coming. (_As they go skipping out._) Good-by, mama! _Exeunt._ HIRAM Ain’t that just like little tots? I tell ye, people, we don’t appreciate being little till we’re old. Did ye ever notice how older people enjoy sittin’ around talkin’ about the things they did when they were little? Golly, but I’ll never forget the time when I was about three years old and my mother started to walk over ter one of our neighbors that lived about a mile and er half from our place. We didn’t get very far when I wanted ter be carried. Well, she couldn’t carry me so fur so she goes and breaks a hazel brush for a stick-horse and gives it ter me ter ride. Wall, I can remember just as well as if it was yesterday, how I gets on that stick-horse and begun ridin’, runnin’ on ahead kickin’ up my heels and runnin’ side ways like a proud army horse. Then I’d get scared and go to rearin’ and backin’. Then I run clear back again. _Enters a little boy and begins fooling with swing._ Well sir, I rode that stick-horse all the way over and back and never asked once to be carried again. Ye’ve got ter give a kid something to do if you don’t want ter get into trouble. Give a kid something to do And he’ll grow up, pure, noble and true. Ain’t that right, John? MR. BENSON I guess you’re right, that’s the way I was brought up. ETHEL _Speaking to boy at swing._ Hello, little man, why don’t you get in and swing? _He does so._ MR. BENSON How’s your cattle lookin’ lately, Hiram? HIRAM Fine, by golly, I never seen ’em grow so fast. I get ’em on that new field of bromus grass. They’ll be in mighty fine shape to fatten this fall. _Enters Leslie Larsen in band suit, carrying horn._ LESLIE Everybody seems to be happy. HARRY Hello Leslie, going to play at the game this afternoon? We’re going to beat ’em. LESLIE We’ll be right there, but I’m not so sure about the beating part since that game this morning. JENNIE Had your dinner, Leslie? LESLIE Yes, we’ve been through half an hour. I was just going to the bowry. We’re going to have a little concert before the speaking. HIRAM Who’s the speaker to-day? LESLIE