Christmas Musicals for Church
Issue link: http://read.jwpepper.com/i/521025
Scene 3 (It is two weeks later. Miss Polly readies the choir. Dusty comes forward to speak to the audience.) DUSTY: Well, Miss Polly took the bit and galloped! Boy, a lot's happened in the last two weeks. She has that little choir ready for their first demonstration. Oh, and the big news is that Miss Polly's manger arrived just minutes ago on the afternoon train! (Dusty rejoins the townspeople.) STATIONMASTER: Depity, you better look at this! Winnie the Telegraph Operator just handed this to me. She just got the message and wrote it out longhand. (Hands the note to the Deputy who begins reading from it. As he does, his "posse" of Miss Sneef, Jane, and Elvin runs up.) DEPUTY: (looking at the note) What is this? E-gyptian heiroglyphics? STATIONMASTER: Naw, it's just the Telegraph Operator's handwritin'. She used to be a doctor, you know. JANE: (looking over the Deputy's shoulder) I can't make heads nor tails of it! DEPUTY: Well, if I'm reading this right, looks like Dodge City warned us that the Lonesome Stranger arrived in Incarnation on the afternoon train today! ELVIN: (gasps) Same train the manger came in on! Bet he's thinkin' of stealin' the priceless manger! DEPUTY: Well, we better keep an eye out! Sally, you're the postmaster, you see his wanted poster all the time; what does he look like? SALLY: He always wears a big brim black hat and a black overcoat! ELVIN: Depity! I think I saw that hombre get off that train today! Big black hat with a wide brim, big moustache, and he had a long black coat! For Preview Only