THE TRAVELLERS AND THE HATCHET
Reading edition
TIME: last week. PLACE: a high road.
FIRST TRAVELLER.
SECOND TRAVELLER.
THE CARPENTER.
SECOND TRAVELLER. Do not say I, but rather, what we have found.
FIRST TRAVELLER. Nonsense! Did I not see the hatchet first? And did I not take it up?
SECOND TRAVELLER. Well, then, claim the hatchet, since that is plainly your wish.
[Enter the CARPENTER.]
CARPENTER (to First Traveller). Aha, thief! Now I have caught you!
[He seizes the First Traveller.]
FIRST TRAVELLER. No thief am I, sir!
CARPENTER. But my own hatchet is in your hand, sir. Come along to the judge, sir!
FIRST TRAVELLER (to Second Traveller). Alas, we are undone!
SECOND TRAVELLER. Do not say we. You are undone, not I. You would not allow me to share the prize; you cannot expect me to share the danger. I bid you good day, sir.
