(Everyone cheers and applauds.)
SAM: Thank you, Belle. Friends, as you know I've devoted my life to
this company, as my parents did and my grandparents before
them. Never once has an Ebeneezer missed a deadline, failed to
deliver an order, or dropped a stitch in one of our world-
famous ugly Christmas sweaters. So, I just wanted to say
"thank you" for the extra work to get this urgent order, our
largest order ever, out the door on Christmas Eve. When it's
finished, we'll throw a huge Christmas party.
(Employees cheer, but then we hear the sound of frantic sheep
bleating offstage. Tiny Tom comes running in from offstage, a
frightened look on his face.)
SOUNDFX – "Sheep Bleating"
BOB: What's going on Tiny Tom?
TOM: I'm sorry to interrupt, but there's a sheep caught in the
weaving machine.
(Everyone groans.)
BELLE: Again?
TOM: (embarrassed) Yes.
BOB: (with compassion) We've talked about this Tiny Tom; first you
shear the sheep, then you put the wool in the weaving machine.
The sequence is important.
TOM: (memorizing) Right! Weaving machine first, sheep shearing
second.
BELLE: No.
TOM: Oh right. Shearing first.
SAM: Someone help Tom get the poor sheep out of the machine and
make sure it's alright. Then, after the order is shipped, the
party starts!
(Cheers from the group, which then go back to work. Someone
leaves with Tiny Tom to free the poor sheep.)
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