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Show Diet of the Legumes CENE Kitchen of a modern apart ment house, kitchen table centre. dumbwaiter left. Spinach, Cabbage nnd Asparagus recline on table. Other char- III acters enter by dumbwaiter It is heard as-ending. as-ending. Cabbage What ho! Who comes? i Asparagus Oh, heavens. It's Onion. Onion (entering) How did you guess? I Spinach She didn't have to guess. i Onion Move along. Cabbage I thought j you were no longer edible. f Cabbage You nevor wore. ii Onion No stew without me I Asparagus Won't somebody open the I window? I feel faint. ! Nutmeg I hopo I don't grate on her I nerves. Cabbage Don't feel cut up about It I Asparagus Aro we all here? Turnip and Parsnip tenter arm In arm) I Here vec are. . I Onion Is this a New England dinner? Egg Plant (enters pantlngi I'm not In It. Onion You spoil everything, even a Joke. j Egg Plant Ever body spoils me. Did you notice who came up with me? 1 Mushroom I did. but I go down alone; I'm a course. Onion Oh, you agree with nobody. Mushroom Aro yo mistaking me for my lllegltimalo coz? WLm Cabbage Stop trying to be funny. I'll take the chair. Tomato (comes In blushing) No. It's my office to declare the Diet open We meet to lepel tho unjust war waged against us by the Medical Faculty. They are cutting some one of us out of tho 77ienu every day or the BAore of water, starch, sugr.r or something. j We havo organized for defence Miss As- paragus has the floor Asparagus The joctors are jealous of mc because I'm medicinal. j Cabbage They say -hat I come back: j what of it? Turnip and Inrsnlp They have neve at-lacked at-lacked us. Aw Onion Nobody eats you. Doctors recom- I mend me. but I am loyal to my clan t move Spinach They recommend me. too. after 1 bc.'ng warmed up three times. Savonarola was only heated once' I trove that we all km turn sour as soon as ever w-e reach n doc-tor's doc-tor's table Tomato You have heard the motion ( Dumbuaitcr groans ) What on eart'j Is that' Potato (all eyes) Only mc? 93 per cent. Hater, T per c i t stcrch Does ihat worry me? A fev of the Idle fit huvo cut me out, : but they miss me Glv3 tho dectors rope J enough, they'll hang themselves. Grow, H that's all you have to do; you'll be eaten. U Spinach It depends on th season Asparagus People are crazj about me at I all seasons. Turnip and Parsnip More than half the I time you come 'n a can, wo never do Asparagus Common' J Tomato Those ln favor of the motion say aye- H Cabbage Aye H Tomato Opposed, nay. (, All Nay. J Tomato Motion lost. Suppose we fox- trot over to the nearest soup kltchon? ' All Let's. . We're all of us. old and young. I wvlcomo (here ) I |