THEME 3 TRACING MY TRAVELS WIFE: (in great excitement):
Get the place clean. Some of those rooms aren’t fi t to be seen. Scrub them, sweep them, quick, quick, quick, and Get the fl ea-powder.
INNKEEPER: WIFE:
Get the chickens Out of the bath. Get all the dogs
And their pups out of the beds and the hogs And the hoglets out of the cupboards and scatter Disinfectant. What’s the matter?
INNKEEPER: (he is standing almost in a trance): This is the greatest day of my life!
WIFE:
And as usual you’ve to thank your wife. Get a move on.
They dash into the inn. Through what follows, the WIFE is throwing bundles of rags, broken chairs, picture frames, etc. out of the windows. Soon the INNKEEPER re-emerges dressed and begins to carry the junk into the shed. But fi rst:
FORTUNE-TELLER: I told them no more than the true.
