Price, 25 Cents Pumpkin Pie Peter BY MARIE IRISH PAINE PUBLISHING COMPANY DAYTON, OHIO MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS These eongB can be used in all manner of entertainments. The music Is easy and both music and words are especially catchy. CUldren tike them. Everybody likes them. Sheet miuAc Price, S5 centa each. HERE'S TO THE LAND OF THE STARS AND THE STRIPES. (Bugbee-Worrell.) A patriotic song which every child should know and love. The sentiment is elevatingr. The music is martial and Inspiring May be effectively sung by the entire school. Suitable for any occasion and may be sung by children or grown-ups. Be the first to use this song in your community. I'LL NEVER PLAY WITH TOU AGAIN. (Guptill-Weaver.) A quarrel between a small boy and girl. The words are defiant and pert. The boy and his dog have been In mischief, and the small maiden pout- ingly declares that she will never play with him again, but changes her mind in the last verse. A taking little duet for any occasion, with full directions for motions. JOLLY FARMER LADS AND LASSIES. (Irish-Lyman.) A de- cidedly humorous action song prepared especially for district schools. It will make a hit wherever produced. JOLLY PICKANINNIES. (Worrell.) Introduce this coon song into your next entertainment. If you use the directions for the mo- tions which accompany the music, the pickaninnies will bring down the house. Their black faces and shining eyes will guarantee a "hit." The words are great and the music just right. LULLABY LANE. (Worrell.) This song is one which the chil- dren, once having learned, will never forget. The words have the charm of the verses written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The music is equally sweet and Is perfectly suited to the beautiful words. It may be sung as a solo by a little girl with a chorus of other little girls with dolls, or as a closing song by the whole school. MY OWN AMERICA, I LOVE BUT THEE. (Worrell.) Here is a song that will arouse patriotism in the heart of every one who hears it. The music is so catchy that the children and grown-ups, too, Just can't resist it. It makes a capital marching song. NOW, AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU CAME? (Guptlll-Weaver.) This is a closing song which is quite out of the ordinary. There is humor in every line. The music is lively. Your audience will not soon forget this spicy song for it will get many an unexpected laugh. The motions which accompany this song make it doubly effective. For any occasion and for any number of children. WE ARE CREEPY LITTLE SCARECROWS. (Guptlll-Weaver.) A weird, fascinating action song. You can't go wrong with this song. There are four verses and chorus. Complete directions accompany this song so that it may be featured as a song and drill, if desired. For any occasion and for any number of children. WE'VE JUST ARRIVED FROM BASHFUL TOWN. (Worrell.) This song will bring memories to the listeners of their own bashful school days. They will recall just how "scared" they were when asked to sing or play or speak. The words are unusually clever. The music is decidedly melodious. It makes a capital welcome song or it may be sung at any time on any program with assured success. WE HOPE YOU'VE BROUGHT YOUR SMILES ALONG. (Wor- rell.) A welcome song that will at once put the audience in a joyous frame of mind and create a happy impression that will mean half the success of your entire program. Words, bright and inspiring. Music, catchy. A sure hit for your entertainment, WE'LL NOW HAVE TO SAY GOOD-BYE. (Worrell.) This beautiful song has snap and go that will appeal alike to visitors and singers. It Is just the song to send your audience home with happy memories of the occasion. Paine Publishing Company Dayton, Ohio Pumpkin Pie Peter A Thanksgiving Play for Intermediate Grades BY MARIE IRISH PAINE PUBLISHING COMPANY DAYTON, OHIO CHARACTERS Mrs. Bass. 1 Mary, -n^ y her children. Peter, ( Edward, j Jane, the maid. Mk§. Bates, a neighbor. Jack, a neighbor. Uncle Sim. Weary, ) Hank, \ ^''^^^P^' TMP96-0J6423 Copyright, 1921, by Paine Publishing Company 9 'CI.D 593!)2 DEC 16 1921 Pumpkin Pie Peter Scene, the Bass home. Discovered, Mrs. Bass and the children. Mrs. Bass — Of course I am sorry T have to go away just at Thanksgiving time, but my mother needs me and T ougb.t to go. You will get along all right and things could be a lot worse. Peter — But we won't have a good dinner with you gone on Thanksgiving day. Mrs. Bass — You'll have enough. There is something to Thanksgiving besides eating — you can be thankful for your blessings. That is what Thanksgiving was started for. Edward — Yes, but the Pilgrims had an awful big feast with their Thanksgiving — it lasted for two days. I bet they got well filled up. Ida' — I think it's mean that gran'ma sent for you just at Thanksgiving time. What'd she get hurt for? Mrs. Bass — Ida Bass, do you spose your gran'ma fell an' broke her arm just for fun? Edward — She's got a queer idea of fun if she dM {giggles). 3 PUMPKIN PIE PETER. ^Irs. Bass — Now you children stop fussing. Jane will see that vou get enough to eat. I want you to behave well while I'm gone and don't get into mischief and don't set fire to the house or get sick and don't be saucy to Jane. Remember all the things you have to be thankful for and I'll come home as soon as I can. Peter — Have you got something leaked up for our Thanksgiving dinner ? Mrs. Bass^^I made two pun'kin pies this morning. Jane will do the rest of the baking. Peter — I'm thankful the pun'kin pies are made — I sure do love 'em. Edward — Xo, you don't miss the rest of the feast if you have plenty of pun'kin pie. Mary {pointing finger) — Peter, Peter, pun'kin pic eater! Peter {dancing about) — Some folks like roast turkey, some for cranberies sigh, but gimme on Thanksgiving my fill of pun'kin pie ! Mrs. Bass — It is getting toward train time. We'll all get our things on and you can help me carry my satchels and bundles to the station. Let's move spry; I mustn't miss the train (all exeunt). Enter Jane Jane — This makes me good an' tired — her goin' off just at Thanksgivin' time an' leavin' me all the work to do (looks around in disgust, hands on hips). Land-sakes-a-me, 4 PUMPKIN PIE PETER. look at the dirt them boys tracked in {poi)its). Spose I got to sweep it up {goes out grumbling and returns with broom and dust tin). Taint no swell job, livin' with a pack of young ones that's alius makin' work {brushes up). Little I have to be thankful for {sighs and sits down dejectedly). Land-sakes-a-me, I wish I could go home for Thanksgivin' {pulls letter from pocket and looks it through). They're goin' to have Uncle Ezry's folks over an' there's goin' to be a big dance at night. Jerry Skaggs would be awful glad to see me {sighs). Land-sakes-a-me, I've a good notion to go! {rises). I — I — don't see why I can't {thinks). I can tell Mis' Bates to look after the children an' they'll be all right. I'll tell 'em I'm sick, 'cause I'm jes' awful homesick, an' Jerry Skaggs is the one that'll cure me of it {hunts around, finds pencil and a piece of paper; sits and laboriously n'rites a }wte). There, that'll tell 'em! They'll be mad, but land-sakes-a-me, they'll git along all right {pins paper to the zvall). Now. if I hurry I can git off 'fore the children git back, an' I'll have time to catch the afternoon stage. I'll see Uncle Ezry's folks an' go to the dance, an' see Jtrry an' land-sakes-a-me. that'll be somethin' like Thanksgivin'! {hurries out) . CURTAIN PUMPKIN PIE PETER. Scene II. — As before Enter Mary, Ida, Peter and Edivard Edward — Well, mother's gone and I spose it's up to us to get along the best we can without her, but the outlook isn't very bright. Mary — Oh, it won't be so bad ! Jane will do pretty well by us. Peter — Thank goodness we have the two pun'kin pies to look forward to. I can get away with one of them all right (laughs). Ida (pointing finger) — Peter, Peter, pun'kin eater, had a pie an' couldn't keep 'er ! Edward (sees note on wall) — Say, what's this? Well — good NIGHT ! (All crowd around it). Isn't that the limit? ]\Iary— W'y, it's from Jane an* she's— GONE ! Ida — Gone home for Thanksgiving! Peter — Well, the mean slacker, the ol' piker — the — the — Edward — A nice Thanksgiving we'll have! (whistles "Home, Sweet Home''). Ida — This is the LIMIT ! (girls sit, boys stand dejectedly leaning against furniture, all the picture of despair). That HORRID Jane. Peter — We've still got the two pun'kin pies to cheer us. Edward — Be still! A big Thanksgiving dinner they'll make. 6 PUMPKIN PIE PETER. Mary — I feel like a grave}ard. Let's go over an' see Mrs. Bates. She'll cheer us up some an' tell us what to do. Ida — Yes, let's go over there (all exeunt, and ere heard talking off stage, voices growing fainter. There is a pause before the tramps knock. The knocks are repeated, each time louder). Enter tramps, very cautiously Weary — Don't seem to be like they's anybody to home. Hank — No, I guess you've guessed it right, Weary {they look about very cautiously). Where you suppose ev'ry- body's gone? Seems like they'd oughter be home gittin' ready fer Thanksgivin'. Gee, this makes me feel like restin' {sits in rocking chair). Weary — I'm too hungry to rest. You set there an' I'll peek around an' see if there's any grub on the ranch. Keep yer eyes open, now, fer if somebody walked in they might not jes' understand what we was doin' here. Hank — We could tell 'em we had come to spend Thanks- givin' with 'em. Weary — Wal, say, ol' timer, we don't look jes' perzactly like we was comp'ny. Hank — What? Don't you like the looks o' this new suit I got on? {shozvs off old clothes). Newest style from ol' New York. Weary — Say, tell that to the ladies. Wal, here's me fer the grub box {exit cautiously. Hank leans head back, shuts eyes, begins to snore). Enter Weary zvith pumpkin pie PUMPKIN PIE PETER. Weary — Oh, boy, ok joy! Where do we go from here? Wake up, Hank, an' turn your eyes loose on what I got here (Hank zuakes). Hank — Oh, yum-yum, dat reminds me of de pies my mother used to make. What's the matter with us havin' a reg'lar Thanksgivin' feast? Weary — Come on — they's another one out here for you. We'll take 'em an' make a getaway while the goin's good. A\^e'll git caught if we don't mozy 'long. Hank (rising) — Wal, we's sure got somethin' to be thankful for. Lead me to the mate o' that golden beauty yer holdin' an' it's all I ask (lie foil ours Weary off. There is a pause, tJien the children are heard off stage, one of the boys zvhistling ''We won't Go Home till Morning"). Enter Mary, Ida, Peter and Edzmrd Edward — WtW, here are the Thanksgiving orphans back home again, cheerful as caged bears an' twice as hungry. Mary — Come on, Ida, we'll get some supper. You set the table while I fry the potatoes. We can't starve just be- cause Jane ran off. (She goes off. A minute later she screams loudly). Enter Mary (runs on waving hands) Peter (jumping up) — What's the matter? Mary— Oh, oh, oh, OH! Edward — What's wrong? Tell us. PUMPKIN PIE PETER. Mary — Oh, they're gone — they're gone! Ida — What is gone? Mother and Jane? Mary — No, no, — the pun'kin pies. Somebody's took 'em {Edward runs off). Ida — Oh, they're not gone! Who woukl take 'em? Eufcr Edzvard Edward — They're gone all right — somebody's been in the house. It shows where they've been hunting 'round. I bet it was tramps. We forgot to lock the doors when we went off. Peter — Oh, are the pun'kin pies gone? We won't have anything to eat an' nothing to be thankful for. I ask you, hungry people, with tear-drops in my eye, what is a Thanks- giving dinner without a pun'kin pie? (wipes eyes). Mary — Don't be foolish, Peter. It's awful to have some- body steal our pies. Ida — Ma's gone, Jane's gone, the pies are gone. What are we going to do? (Peter hurries from stage). Enter Jack (carrying a pumpkin pie) Jack — Hello, folks. I knocked but you were making so much noise you didn't hear me, so I walked in. My mother heard 'bout your mother having to go off an' so she sent you over this pun'kin pie for dinner tomorrow. She said maybe your mother didn't have time to bake any an' this might come in handy. She said maybe it aint quite so good as your mother makes but she guessed you could get away with it. n PUMPKIN PIE PETER. ]\Iary — {unwraps pic and holds it up) — Oh, isn't this nice? We surely thank you for it, Jack, an' we need it 'cause somebody stole both of ours. Jack — What? Stole your pun'kin pies? Edward — Yes, two of them, while we were gone this afternoon. I'll bet it was tramps. (Mary sets the pie on a chair while she smooths and folds the cloth that was over if. Then she lays the cloth on top of pie.) Enter Peter with an old gun Jack — Hold on, hold on, don't shoot. (He pretends to be very scared, backs up quickly, bumps against the cJmir, loses balance and sits down hard in the pumpkin pie. The girls scream.) Ida Oh, just see what you've done! The lovely pie! Mary {holding up smashed pie) — I guess you can take this home, Jack, an' tell your mother we don't care for it {all laugh). Jack — Well, you boob, what you got that gun for any- way? »Peter — T want to shoot the fellows that stole our pies. Jack — Huh, that ol' thing wouldn't kill a potato bug. I bet it aint been shot off in fi\'e years. Peter — IVe a good notion to try it on you for spoiling that dandy pie {he puts gun doivn and takes pie from Mary, gazing at it and pretending to cry). 10 PUMPKIN PIE PETER. Jack — Poor Peter pun'kin eater, he's got a pie but he can't eat 'er; Peter, Peter pun'kin eater, he cries 'cause his pie don't look no neater {all laugh but Peter zvho zvails out loud). Ida — ^'If we knew who took our pies we'd give 'em this one* too. Peter — Yes, they're welcome to it — T don't care 'bout pun'kin pies any more. Jack — Well, honest to goo'dnenss, I'm awful sorry I spoiled the pie. I'll go home an' see if ma won't gimme another one to bring over. You've got to have something to eat tomorrow or you can't be thankful. Peter pun'kin eater couldn't keep his wife, but this Peter can't keep his pie. Well, so long, I'll see what luck I have an' you'll hear from me later (eA'it). Edward — Now let me suggest that you girls get us some- thing to eat. I'm most starved. (A knock is heard. Ida goes over and admits Uncle Sim). Enter Uncle Sim (carries a basket) Uncle S. — Hello, hello. How's the orphans? We heard your mother had to go off for a trip an' Mis' Bates was tellin' us that Jane has skipped too. Pretty tough luck, eh? (laughs). So mother couldn't rest till she sent me over with a little somethin' for your Thanksgivin' dinner tomorrow. *'I guess those poor children has to have somethin' to eat so's they can be thankful," mother said ; so here I be an' here it is (hands basket to Mary). I guess you can manage 11 PUMPKIN PIE PETER. to eat it 'cause my wife's as good a cook as there is in the county, accordin' to my idee, an' I ought to know seein' as how I've been Hvin' on 'er cookin' for a good many years. Edward (zvith hand on stomach) — Oh, Uncle Sim, you've sure saved us from despair an' starvation. Mother left us two pun'kin pies an' Jane was to get the rest of our dinner, but she skipped, then some one stole our pies. Uncle Sim — Stole your pies? \Xa\, I snum ! Say, there was two tramps goin' 'long the country today — I'll bet they lifted 'em. Edward— Then a good fairy sent us a pie an' Jack sat down on it (Peter comes over zvith the pie and shows it to Uncle Sim). Uncle Sim (laughing heartily) — Wal, I snum — you sure are havin' hard luck. But cheer up — you've got somethin' good in the basket I brought (shakes finger). An' don'c you let nobody steal it or we won't give you any more. Now I mus' go — got to pail the cows. Edward — Thank you very much for vour kindness (exit Uncle S). Ida — What's in the basket? (They stand around and ex- amine it). Oh, how good it looks! Peter — Yum-yum, a pun'kin pie! Now right here is where I have a piece. If I wait till tomorrow maybe some- thing will happen to it (he gets a knife and cuts a piece of pie and begins to eat it). 12 PUMPKIN PIE PETER. Mary — I'm going to have some, too {each one cuts a piece and eats it. They make remarks about how good it is). Ida — Oh, dear, there isn't enough left for our Thanks- giving dinner. Peter — Never mind tomorrow. I'm giving thanks right now, for this. Enter Mrs. Bates (zmth a basket) Mrs. Bates — Where are you all? It's so still I thought no one was here. Well, no wonder you're still — all filling up on pun'kin pie. Mary — We have to eat it quick 'fore something happens to it. Edv^ard — Some one stole the pies mother baked us, then Jack sat down on that one {shows pie) so we're eating this to save it. Mrs. Bates {laughing) — I've heard 'bout squash pies but this one is sure squashed. Well, I do think you are hav- ing hard luck. That was a mean thing for Jane to skip off, but she was so homesick she didn't care whether school kept or not. Never mind, you'll get along all right. I've brought you something for your dinner tomorrow an' while 'I may not be as good a cook as your mother I'll wager this won't make you sick — 'less you eat too much of it {she sets basket on table). Mary — Oh, we do thank you. Edward — We'll surely have something to be thankful for tomorrow. 13 PUMPKIN PIE PETER. Peter — That is, we can be thankful if you have brought us a pun'kin pie — this one is most gone. Mrs. Bates (laughing) — You're a reg'lar pun'kin pie eater, aint you, Peter? Well, you'll find a pun'kin pie in my basket but I want you to save it for your dinner to- morrow. Now I must go home an' wash the dishes. Pve been keepin' house a good many years an' my dishes aint never washed themselves yet, Good-by. Ida — Thank you for helping us to be thankful on Thanks- giving day {exit Mrs. Bates). Edward — Tomorrow won't be so bad. We'll have enough to eat an' we can pop corn an' make some candy. (Peter takes the pie from Mrs. Bates' basket and holds it out in front of him.) Peter — Thanksgiving day brings joy to a fellow If he can have plenty of pun'kin pie yellow. Mary — Pun'kin pie Peter, he don't need to cry 'cause he's got a nice big pun'kin pie (they form in line hack of Peter zvho holds pie raised and all march around the room in a circle). All chant as they march: Ma's gone an' Jane's gone, but we shall not sigh ; Hurrah for Thanksgiving and a nice fat pun'kin pie. (exeunt). CURTAIN 14 PLAYS, MONOLOGS, Etc AS OV,It WASHWOMAN SEES IT. (Ednm I. MacKenzie.) Time. 10 minutea. Nora is seen at the washboard at the home of Mrs. McNeal. where, amidst her work, she engages in a line of gossip concerning her patrons, that will make a hit with any audience. 26 cents. ASK OUIJA. (Edna I. MacKenzie.) Time, 8 minutes. A present- day girl illustrates to her friends the wonders of the Ouija board. Her comments on the mysteries of this present-day fad as she conavlts Ouija will delight any audience, 26 cents. COONTOWN TROUBLES. (Bugbee-Berg.) A lively black-face song given by Josephus Johnsing, Uncle Rastus and other Coon- town folks. 36 cents. THE GREAT CHICKEN STEALING CASE OF EBENEZEB COl7NT¥. (Walter Richardson.) A negro mock trial for 9 males. 2 females and jurors. Time. 35 minutes. Any ordinary room easily ar- ranged. From start to finish this trial is ludicrous to the extreme and will bring roars of laughter from the audience. 26 cents. 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