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| Act:2 Scene:3 | Baloo Higgins Study the following morning | |
| Baloo and Colonel Pickering are talking in the study. The sound of splashing can be heard from the bathroom where Mrs Brown is bathing Flossie. The young sheep, in good voice is singing in the bath. The sound drifts into the study. | ||
| Flossie: |
Suki Bo Peep has lost her sheep, But she knows where they're lying. She'll give them a smack and they'll come back With noses all bruished and crying. | |
| Col. Pickering: | You can't be serious, Higgins! There's no way Flossie is ready yet and besides ... Flossie is a sheep. Someone is bound to notice. | |
| Baloo: | Royal Ascot is ideal, Colonel. I have acquaintances who have a box there. If we find a nice big hat for Flossie to wear, something with fruit on, I think, I am sure we can pull the wool over people's eyes. (thinks) ... or not, if you know what I mean. | |
| Col. Pickering: | Higgins, you have done what I never would have thought to be possible, but this is crazy! We could put this sheep on the stage and both make fortunes. But this is sheer madness - Someone is bound to notice. | |
| Flossie: |
Mary had a little lamb, She thought it very handshome. The Shepherdess came by one day And took the lamb for ranshom. Mary got a ranshom note Which warned if she should fail She would get her lambkin back In piecesh in the mail. | |
| Col. Pickering: | I am also not too sure that the sheep is completely sane. | |
| Flossie: |
The ranshom note enclosed as proof, A bag of woolly shavings. Mary went round to her bank And took out all her savings. | |
| Baloo: | But its diction is near perfect. | |
| Flossie: |
But Mary went and told the cops, That silly girl was most Upset when Mr Postie came Delivering the post. | |
| Col. Pickering: | There is something very strange about that sheep. | |
| Baloo: | You worry too much Pickering. Let's go and buy a hat. | |
| Baloo and Colonel Pickering leave for the Milliners. Flossie is still singing in the background, still in fine voice, but temporarily in the wrong musical. | ||
| Flossie: |
Girls in white dresses, A big thing that bashes, Hard blows that rain on my nose and eyelashes, Brown postal packages tied up with string: These are a few of my worrying things. When the dog bites, When the bee stings, When I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my worrying things, And then I feel twice as bad. | |
| Mrs Brown: | Who's a pretty little sheep then? | |
| Flossie: |
Baaa!
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