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EXCERPT:
(Characters: MABEL, a goose; MOLLY, a donkey; GIMPY, a goat; SAMMY, a sheep; CAM, a camel; and STELLA and STERLING, two of the King’s Horses).
STERLING: Hey! Where’d the sheep come from?
MOLLY: It’s Sammy Lamby!
STELLA: She, like, appeared out of nowhere, Sterling!
SAMMY: (gasping) Baby … (gasp) … baby …
GIMPY: Baby, baby?
MOLLY: She’s singing a love song!
SAMMY: (shaking her had) … Baby … out there! (gasp) Out there!
MABEL: Out there? Good heavens, she’s found a baby out there in the desert! (SAMM shakes her head; MABEL doesn’t notice). We must save it! Mount up, everyone! To the baby!
SAMMY: No … (gasp) … No … (gasp) LADY with a baby. (gasp, gasp, rounding her belly like a pregnant woman) Lady gonna have a baby …
CAM: You’re gonna have a baby, Sammy?!
MOLLY: Auuugh! Boil some water!
GIMPY: Tear some sheets!
CAM: Paint the nursery …
SAMMY: Not me, you numbskulls! I’m not having a baby. (gasp) Look, I was out running with the Fourth-Street Flock, see. And they tell me about this woman and her husband who are on their way to town, right? And they say she’s going to have a baby any minute, you know? And get this – are you ready? This baby that she’s going to have … is going to be the king!
MABEL: The king?! She’s gonna have a baby, and the baby’s going to be king?!
STERLING: Whattaya talkin’ about, the baby’s gonna be king.
STELLA: Yeah. We got a king – and he ain’t no baby.
SAMMY: This kid’s supposed to be the real king. I checked all my sources on this one, guys … my mother’s brother Frankie … Fluffy Joe down at the city gate … Old Cottonpants over at the temple stable … they all swear it’s true. Apparently, you ain’t never seen a king like the king this kid is gonna be.
MABEL: Oh, my goodness! How exciting!
MOLLY: A new king! Wowwwww!
CAM: Right on.
STERLING: Hold on, hold on. Now lookee here. We’re the king’s horses.
STELLA: Yeah!
STERLING: And ain’t nobody told us about no new king.
STELLA: Got that right.
STERLING: As the king’s horses, we’d be the first to know if there was a new king coming.
STELLA: Word!
STERLING: So you know what I say?
STELLA: Come on … !
STERLING: I say that anybody who goes around talking about a new king … is disloyal to the real king. (staring down SAMMY) I say that anybody who goes around telling everybody about a new king … anybody who does that, ought to be in really, really big trouble. (menacing to SAMMY) And that includes you, buddy.
SAMMY: Don’t call me buddy. I’m a ewe.
STERLING looks at STELLA, confused; STELLA shrugs.
STERLING: (believing he’s been insulted) What’d you say to me?!
SAMMY: I said, I’m a ewe.
STERLING: You’re-a me?
SAMMY: No, I’m a ewe. A ewe is a female sheep.
STERLING: I’m a female sheep?
SAMMY: No, a ewe is a female sheep.
STERLING: No, I is not!
SAMMY: Look, I’m not saying you’re a female sheep. I’m saying a ewe is a female sheep.
STERLING: And I’m sayin’ I isn’t!
SAMMY: Listen, try to get this: I’m a ewe!
STELLA: You’re-a him?
SAMMY: No! Ewe! Ewe!
STELLA: I’m a him?!
STERLING: Make up your mind, man!
GIMPY: (aside) These guys are denser than Mabel’s meat loaf!
CAM: Look, horsies, try and connect the dots here, OK. A female sheep is called a ewe. She … is a female sheep. She … is a ewe.
STERLING: She … is-a not-a me! And the next person who says that is gonna really get it!
STELLA: (to SAMMY): I am-a me, he is-a he, and you are-a you.
SAMMY: That’s what I’m saying!
STELLA: Then say it!
SAMMY: I did! (to kids) Isn’t that what I said?!
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