Bird in Hand: A Play in One Act: by Laurence Housman

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

Scene:—You are looking into the study of aScientist—a large room lined with books and specimen cases.At the back are two upright windows, through which one seesa green bowery garden, suggestive of quiet and seclusion.In one window stands a case of stuffed birds, in the othera microscope. Near the center of the room is a ponderouswriting-table, above which hangs an adjustable light, presidedover by a large green shade. Adjoining the writing-table is asmaller one, on which stands a typewriter. All about the room,on tables and systematically arranged, and suggestive of thestrict order imposed by a meticulous mind. There is one door toright, another to left, the latter leading to an inner chamber.On the writing-table lie papers and a portable speaking-tube.A telephone, a waste-paper basket, and a revolving book-standare within easy reach of the Professor’s chair,while behind it is a screen partly covering the door leadingto the inner chamber. On the opposite side, between the otherdoor and the window, stands a large chest. It is morning,and through half-lowered green blinds sunlight streams overthe replete and comfortable interior, touching to brightnessthe polished metal of the microscope, and the plumage of thestuffed birds.