Page:The worsted man; a musical play for amateurs, by John Kendrick Bangs.djvu/48

 The Worsted Man Doll. Then I will play the game to win one. What is it ? Impatience. (Demurely.) The game of love. Doll Love? Impatience. Love. Doll. My! What a lot of nice new things I am finding to-day. This world seems a pretty good sort of place. Do you know, I like that word love it conveys an idea to my absorbent-cotton brains; it gives a strange thrill to the bright particular wad of rags with which my left side is stuffed ; it brings to these shoe-buttons of mine All. These what? Doll. These shoe-buttons oh, I for got. I should have said these eyes of mine. It brings to these eyes of mine a soft and sheepish feeling which un- decides me as to whether I should crack my calico lips by smiling till I break the thread that binds my ears to my 30