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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	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	financiers of Frogbit Lane.
Dodder
Squill

Thistle Bloom	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	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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