WHERE IS MY KITTY?
Reading edition
Action Poem.
KITTY,[1] kitty, kitty! [2]Where can you be? [3]Perhaps you’re in the garden; [4]I’ll run out and see. [5]She’s not in the garden; And not in the shed; [6]Oh, what shall I do If my kitty is dead! [7]I’ll look in mamma’s room; [8]I’ll look in my chair; [9]I’ll look on the table, But no kitty is there. [10]You’ve found her, the darling, [11]What, there, you don’t say? [12]Asleep in the barn, Cuddled up in the hay, My kitty.
DIRECTIONS.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Child runs in calling.Note 2 · Stops and looks about.Note 3 · As if thinking a moment, shakes head as she recites the line.Note 4 · Recites fourth line and runs out a moment.Note 5 · Enters hurriedly and tells audience.Note 6 · Sorrowfully. Stands disconsolate a moment.Note 7 · Recites line, skips to entrance near R. front and looks in; comes back, and stops a moment, as if thinking.Note 8 · Recites line; goes and looks in chair; stops a moment.Note 9 · Recites third line; goes and looks at table; seeing no kitty, looks heartsick and ready to cry.Note 10 · Looks up and off L. suddenly; face brightens as she listens. Recites line, full of joy and animation and love.Note 11 · Listens; speaks as if astonished. Takes kitten in her arms very lovingly.Note 12 · Talks to kitty very lovingly, drawling out on “My Kitty.” Gives kitty a loving squeeze.