Fleet Foot monologue — The light: An educational pageant

(_controlling herself by a great effort_) Far away in the forest we found a small tree covered with beautiful fruit. See, father, there is some of it at your feet. (STRONG ARM _picks up a fruit and examines it, while_ FLEET FOOT _continues her story_.) Rash Daring wanted to eat some of the fruit as soon as we found it; but I persuaded him to gather it and carry it home for you to see, for I feared it was poisonous because, with many monkeys in the neighboring trees, not one fruit on the small tree had been bitten or plucked. On our way home I ran ahead of my brother. Suddenly he cried aloud. I hastened back and found him lying on the ground in great pain. He told me that he had eaten some of the fruit and suffered greatly. I ran to the brook for water, but he could not drink it. Then I called you.