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WOODMYTH & FABLE 



THE POINT OF VIEW 



QUIET country home among 

 fruit-trees and shrubbery; the 

 gray-bearded Master, a fa- 

 mous vegetarian, in the 

 porch reading a paper; a rolHng meadow ; 

 a flock of well-fed sheep. 



Scene I. In the Master's House. The 

 Graybeard looking over the meadow. 



" How can human beings be so bestial 

 as to prey on their flocks? For me there 

 is no greater pleasure than to know I 

 can make their lives happy. Their annual 

 wool is ample payment for their keep. But 

 I see by the paper that this awful sheep 

 pestilence has broken out on the coast. I 

 must waste no time; nothing but inocula- 

 tion can save them. Poor things, how I 



