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efforts are without result.

He steps back by

the rain pipe.

Rose looks up at Jim, and speaks softly : Jim, dear heart - the children ,

They have started towards the door when Rose sees the pail. Why, Jim, that's our pail. Where did it come from ?

She looks around, wondering. Annie and Dabs are seen looking out of the window. JIM

Smiling.

I guess those little rascals put it there. They enter the house.

But Mr. Bunt is left behind. He goes over to pick up the pail and is stooping over it when suddenly his face lights up. MR. BUNT

Aghast. Why, I'm a forgotten fairy ! With a leap he starts off the stage on a run for the Maple Tree. Annie comes out and gets the pail and is look ing anxiously in the direction where Mr. Bunt

has disappeared. For a moment she hesitates and then calls pathetically, “ Mr. Bunt, Mr. Bunt ! ” The lights go out. The voice is still

heard calling softly in the distance, “ Mr. Bunt, Mr. Bunt ! ”