No More Learning
Gives a long and designedly loathsome account of
glanders
and farcy.
Kipling - Poems
(A pause.
) Pip, what
are "farcybuds"?
Capt.
G.
Hah!
Would you really like to know?
They aren't pretty things.
Mrs.
G.
This Journal of Veterinary Science says they are of "absorbing
interest.
" Tell me.
Capt.
G.
(Aside.
) It may turn her attention.
Gives a long and designedly loathsome account of
glanders
and farcy.
Mrs.
G.
Oh, that's enough.
Don't go on!
Capt.
G.
But you wanted to know--Then these things suppurate and
matterate and spread--
Mrs.
G.
Pin, you're making me sick!
You're a horrid, disgusting
schoolboy.
Capt.
G.
(On his knees among the bridles.
) You asked to be told.
It's
not my fault if you worry me into talking about horrors.
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