It’s yours, Ethel, and it’s going to be the very best (_embrace_). _Embrace. Enter Hiram and Mr. Benson. Stop short on seeing Ethel and Clarence in each other’s arms._ MR. BENSON _Harshly._ Ethel! _Ethel and Clarence separate embarrassed._ CLARENCE _Going up and taking Mr. Benson by the hand._ Mr. Benson, I know this is no way to be caught with your daughter, but since it couldn’t be helped I suppose the only way to get around it will be for you to give your consent to marry her. MR. BENSON Are you going to live on the farm? CLARENCE Would you advise me to? MR. BENSON By jinks, you can’t have her unless you do. _Clarence crosses and puts arm around Ethel._ HIRAM By golly, it does me good to see the cream of the country come pourin’ back again. Don’t you know some of our greatest men like Lincoln and Washington, come from the farm? They’d all like to have gotten back again but they were so tied up in the world they couldn’t break loose. The cities are all right in a way, and I suppose we couldn’t get along without them now, but, by golly, there would never have been a city if it hadn’t been for the country. Why, I can remember when all the young men that wanted to do something worth while went to the cities and left the very poorest fellows at home. And the old fellows when they got enough money they moved ter the city and spent their money there. By golly, that’s right, ain’t it, John? MR. BENSON I guess you’re right, Hiram. HIRAM Of course, I’m right. By golly, it sure does me good ter see the change coming where the best people of the country stay on the farm instead of movin’ ter the city where they’re just as much out of place as “A Bee in a Drone’s Hive.” Author of play—Cecil Baker. CURTAIN. LARIMORE Somebody once said a pageant was a big outdoor play in which people in everyday walks of life—John and Joe and Susan—take an active part and tell the story of what happened in the neighborhood, county, or state in their own manner. It is something that might be called a human festival, because the people young and old and even “the animals, the oxen and the horse, the donkey and the dog” all take part.