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SCENE 6
(The group exits the Forest of the Unknown, returning to the stage.)
NUGGET: We made it!
SCRAMBLES: Look! There's the farm! We made it!
BUTTERCUP: The gate's still open! We're saved! Come on, Faith!
FAITH: (suddenly exhausted) You go on, suddenly I'm exhausted. I'm
just gonna take a little nap and I'll meet you at the coop in a …
few … minutes.
(As the chicks, the chickens and Benedict exit excitedly, Faith falls
fast asleep. Grandma enters and sees her asleep.)
GRANDMA: Faith, you poor thing, you must be exhausted.
FAITH: (waking groggily, but then talking quickly) I am exhausted. I was
up all night looking for your chickens! I forgot to lock them in
last night, Grandma! I'm sorry! But I found them this morning
and we got back, thanks to a Bookworm, and God's Word, and
Jesus walking with me, and …
GRANDMA: (laughing) I'm not sure what you're talking about, dear, but
what do you mean about "last night," and "this morning?" I
saw you out here taking a little nap right after you were playing
in the yard. It's almost dinner time, so I thought I'd better wake
you!
FAITH: So, the chickens are okay? Buttercup, and Nugget, and
Scrambles, and the baby chicks?
GRANDMA: All present and accounted for.
FAITH: I must have been dreaming …
GRANDMA: Sounds like it was a good one!
FAITH: It was … the best ever!
GRANDMA: Well, then it sounds like a perfect ending to your time on the
farm. It's back home with you tomorrow morning, and we're
going to miss you around here! (turning serious) And Faith,
don't you worry too much about some of those problems back
home. You know …
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