Little Dramas for Primary Grades

<h2 class='c008'>TOM AND THE LOBSTER</h2> <div class='lg-container-b c002'> <div class='linegroup'> <div class='group'> <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Place</span>—<em>Among the rocks</em></div> <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Characters</span>—<em>Tom</em>, <em>Lobster</em></div> </div></div> </div> <div class='dl_1'> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Tom.</em></span> [<em>To lobster caught in a lobster pot.</em>] What, have you been naughty, and have they put you in the lockup?</p> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Lobster.</em></span> I can’t get out.</p> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Tom.</em></span> Why did you get in?</p> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Lobster.</em></span> I came in for that ugly piece of fish.</p> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Tom.</em></span> Where did you get in?</p> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Lobster.</em></span> Through that round hole at the top.</p> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Tom.</em></span> Then why don’t you get out through it?</p> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Lobster.</em></span> Because I can’t. I have jumped upwards, downwards, backwards, <span class="pagenum" id='Page_118'>118</span>and sideways, at least four thousand times, and I can’t get out. I always get up underneath then and can’t find the hole.</p> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Tom.</em></span> Stop a bit. Turn your tail up to me, and I’ll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won’t stick in the spikes. [<em>Tom pulls lobster.</em>] Hello, here is a pretty business. Now take your great claws and break the point off those spikes, and then we shall both get out easily.</p> <p><span class='dl_1'><em>Lobster.</em></span> Dear me, I never thought of that!</p> </div> <div class='figcenter id002'> <span class="pagenum" id='Page_119'>119</span> <ANTIMG src='images/p119.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />