The Camels Back

II
Choosing costume at shop
Mrs. Nolak: Something for you?
Perry:Want costume of
Julius Hur, the charioteer.
Mrs. Nolak: I’m sorry, but every stitch of charioteer had been rented
long ago. Wasit for the Townsends’ circus ball?
Perry: It was.
Mrs. Nolak: Sorry, but I don’t think there’s anything left that’s
really circus.
Perry: Hm. If you’ve got a, piece
of canvas I could go’s a tent.Mrs. Nolak: Sorry, but we haven’t anything like that. A hardware store is where
you’d have to go to. We have some very nice Confederate soldiers.
Perry: No. No soldiers.
Mrs. Nolak: And I have avery handsome king. Several of the gentlemen are wearing stovepipe hats and swallowtail coats and going as ringmasters—but
we’re all out of tall hats. I can let you have some crape hair for a
mustache.Perry: Want somep’n ‘stinctive.
Mrs. Nolak: Something—let’s see. Well, we have a lion’s head, and a goose, and a
camel—
Perry: Camel?
Mrs. Nolak: Yes, but It needs two people.
Perry: Camel,That’s the idea. Lemme see it.
Mrs. Nolak: You see it takes two people. If you have a friend he could be part of it. You see there’s sorta pants for two people. One pair is for the fella infront, and theother pair for the fella in back. The fella in front
does the lookin’ out through these here eyes, an’ the fella in back
he’s just gotta stoop over an’ folla the front fella round.
Mrs. Nolak: Put iton
Perry: What noise does a camel make?
Mrs. Nolak: What? Oh,
what noise? Why, he sorta brays.
Perry: Lemme see it in a mirror.
Mrs. Nolak: You see you have to have two people.
Perry:Don’t looklike anything at all
Mrs. Nolak: No. you see you got to have two people.
Perry: You got a date to-night?
Mrs. Nolak: Oh, I couldn’t possibly——
Perry: Oh, come on. Sure you can! Here! Begood
sport, and climb into these hind legs.
Mrs. Nolak: Oh, no——
Perry: C’mon! You can be the front if you want to. Or we’ll flip a coin. Make it worth your while.
Mrs. Nolak: Now you just stop!...