Show r I. I SEPARATION OF ALPHONZ AND GASTON Scene Kitchen in the habitation o of f Alphonz and Cast Gaston on at breakfast breakfast breakfast break break- fast time Alphonz Gaston and the Black Cat seated at the table trying trying trying try try- ing to force their teeth into sonic some so- so called biscuits Alphonz makes the first remark Ye gods Gaston I understood vas it that these are or are they specimens specimens specimens mens Tell me how you make it Gaston Gaston I I will take no insinuations insinuations insinuations from you Alphonz If you dont don't like my cooking you can get you own meals I have stood your slurs and improper references to my grub long enough Anyhow this I bread is much better than what you made a week ago You tell mistake mistake mistake mis mis- Alphonz You Alphonz-You a big take Gaston We ate ivery bit of that batch getting sick and here I get sick just to look upon this stuff Gaston you better git gita a job making paper weights Gaston Gaston And And its it's insult youre you're trying to give me is it Were it not that I have resolved never to strike a man uglier than myself Id I'd t. t Well it makes me shudder just j J to think of it Oh you can giggle and make fun all you want to but f flet let me notify you that I have stood your impoliteness long enough Henceforth our ways must separate I angrily bites off a chunk of bisI bis bis- I Alphonz Do Alphonz-Do Do you me to to death and raising raising raising rais rais- ing any Gaston an os- os would die of if it tried to one of those sinkers Your threat of separation me I haf long been tired of your company and have al already already already al- al ready decided to make other ar ar- Gaston I I will take the bedstead f Alphonz Not Alphonz-Not Not with my sion my dear Gaston Gaston Gaston But But I am determined t my Alphonz Alphonz You Alphonz-You You vill never touch it I so long as I continue to breathe my t dear Gas Gaston Rather Gaston Rather than use force r my own we will draw cuts l for first choice k Alphonz The Alphonz-The The me 1 Gaston They cast lots Gaston V gets first choice f ra Gaston Gaston Of Of course I will have havethe havethe f the bed Alphonz Then Alphonz-Then Then I vill take the thet stove 7 t X Gaston The Gaston The table is IS mine mme J Alphonz And Alphonz-And And I will haf the X chairs Thus they continue till almost almost al al- jl most ever everything thin is taken r 1 6 Alphonz suddenly The suddenly The Black jt t Cat goes with me my dear Gas t I Gaston Gaston Never Never ever Alphonz never f r t The Cat belongs to me U. i Alphonz It Alphonz-It It vas I who rf him Gas-bag Gas and for that I I insist that that that- H 1 Gaston Gaston It It was I who forced him m k I to eat my dear f. f I Al Alphonz Alphonz- honz you would haf to force him to tackle such bread as thees I you rr T I i y Gaston Your Gaston Your assistance was un un- necessary I claim the cat Alphonz But Alphonz-But But he likes me best He Ie goes with me Gaston Gaston We We will arbitrate Why not let Bennion decide Alphonz I I vill agree Let us send for him at once Gaston goes after Bennion Alphonz begins to gather his share o of f the furniture The Black Cat looks sad Two hours later Gaston returns with Bennion Black Cat greets Bennion joyfully Bennion Now Bennion-Now Now gentlemen what is the trouble Alphonz I I vill it too you Gaston Gaston Allow Allow me to speak first my dear Alphonz After Alphonz-After After me Gas Gaston Gaston No No me first etc etc Bennion I I can listen to but one oneat oneat oneat at a time Tell your story Alphonz Alphonz Alp tells his story and is followed followed fol- fol lowed by Gaston At the same time tinge the Black Cat sings softly How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood When your face Mr Bennion recalls recalls recalls re re- calls them to view The yard Barn-yard the wood-pile wood the ax that stood by it And all the old cats that my infancy knew Bennion after a short consider consider- The one saith This is my cat and the other saith Nay it is mine Bring me a razor Gaston gets a corn Bennion I I will divide the living cat in two Chases the Cat The latter cries Ss pare me pare me re re me-e me me e ow Alphonz A in great anguish Oh be Professor Give Gas-bag Gas the cat and in no slay it Gaston Nay Gaston Nay let it be neither mine nor thine but divide it Bennion Give Bennion-Give Give Alphonz the Cat He loveth it as a mother loveth her own offspring Alphonz Alp Oh Oh thank you Professor sor Gaston Bennion Gaston Bennion you are are are- Bennion Gentlemen Bennion-Gentlemen Gentlemen good day Departs Gaston begins to collect his be be- lon longings ings Alphonz takes cat and leaves in search o of f an express wagon Black cat sings sound gradually dies out in the distance How can I bear to leave thee Old home and dear friend Gas-bag Gas I go because he makes me I know not where he takes me Good-bye Good good-bye good my dear Gas Gas- bag Good-bye Good good-bye good i i i Gas |