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CHARACTERS

Meliotte, a very good girl.
The Turtle Woman, mysterious and behind the styles.
Silver Dollar, an honest coin.
Three Silver Quarters, small change.
Silver Dime, very small change.

Dock financiers of Frogbit Lane.
Dodder
Squill
Thistle Bloom fairy spinners.
Pansy Bud

Scene: The interior of a poor hut in the forest. There is a door in the center with a window on each side. Another door, on the right, which probably leads into another room. The furniture of the room consists of a table, two stools, a bench, and a cupboard, the latter standing near one of the windows. On the left is a fireplace with a very low fire, which will go out directly unless it has some wood; but there is n't any. It is a stormy night in the forest.

(When the curtain rises, Melilotte, who ought to be in bed, is seen counting pennies into a child's savings-bank.)

SONG

Meliotte.

Nine - ty six and nine- ty sev - en, nine- ty eight and nine;

all these pennies I have earned and ev-'ry one is mine.

This one makes a hundred, and what a luck -y girl am I! But

O! I need so man - y things and liv-ing is so high!

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