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MR. BUNT SCENE 3

In the silence, high up among the gilded orna ments of the circus wagon, a little figure with a gun is seen, peering cautiously over the top. JIM

Looking up and watching it. What you doing up there, sonny ? BOY

I'm afraid. JIM

Where did you come from ? BOY

I don't know. JIM

Well, I guess you're skeered out of your wits, ain't you ? Come down here; I want to see you. BOY

You won't bite me ? JIM

Say BOY

Nor you won't let the tiger get me? JIM You come down here.

The boy descends and walks over into the

light. It is the absurd figure of Mr. Bunt. Why, bless my heart, what's this ? Where did

you get them clothes ? Be you out hunting ani mals in the menagerie ?