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 PARADISE FOUND 5

TEACHER. Now let me see how much you know. Who was this ? ( Points to MR. SHAW. )

VOICES. Comrade A. I.

TEACHER. What name was he known by in the Capitalist age ?

VOICES. Shaw — Bernard Shaw — Saint George — Lloyd George.

TEACHER. ( Impressively ) Lloyd George Ber- nard Shaw. Why was he called Saint George ? ( Points to group. )

FIRST PUPIL. Please, sir, cos e killed the Dragon.

TEACHER. What Dragon ?

FIRST PUPIL. The Dragon what tried to kill im.

TEACHER. Nonsense ! — Next girl ! — Why don't you answer ?

SECOND PUPIL. I ain't a girl, I'm a boy.

TEACHER. How am I to know that ? Where's your red band ?

SECOND PUPIL. Please sir, I think I must have lost it.

TEACHER. You miserable child ! Do you realize what that means ? Do you know that I shall have to fill up half-a-dozen different forms ? — a declaration that you have lost it, a requisi- tion for your birth certificate, a requisition to the municipal authority, a specification for the clothing department, a certificate to the educa- tional department — and I don't know what beside. It will take months to get another. You must turn up your sleeve meanwhile. ( The pupil does so. The Teacher turns to the next