The Cat-Bird

Excerpt from The Cat-Bird
Scene: - The Professor's Vivarium. The front of the stage is occupied by a pergola porch with columns between which one looks into a garden. The pergola is furnished with a few chairs, and several cases on pedestals. One of these with a wire net across the top is supposed to contain a pair of rattlesnakes, and a mechanical spring making a loud whirr should be ready on cue. Another smaller case similarly fitted with a wire net top is supposed to contain scorpions. The garden contains shrubs with birds nests, a terracotta bird bath, and a circular fountain. The back cloth shows a high wall and beyond it tree tops against a summer sky. Between the columns to the Left, a large spider web is swung with a smaller one near it. On these webs a large and a small spider brilliantly marked should be movable.
Rise: - At rise the stage is empty, sunlight floods the garden, the fountain plashes, birds sing, bees hum, butterflies flutter. The smaller spider approaches the larger slowly; then darts away pursued by the larger who goes back slowly to her post. Birds hover about a nest in one of the trees. A girls cry of fright is heard off L.
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