Excerpt from A Pair of Sixes: A Farce in Three Acts Scene: Office of the Eureka Digestive Pill Company - New York. At right rear is main entrance to office. At left rear is entrance from and into salesroom. R and L, down front, are entrances into offices of Nettleton and Johns, that at Right, being lettered "George B. Nettleton, Private"; that at L; "T. Boggs Johns, Private." Typewriter's desk at R, a little upstage. At L is a standing desk and high stool. Phone on desk. Over desk is a small Cashier's window connecting with the salesroom. Safe in corner. Large letter file at rear. Other office furniture. At C is a six-foot table piled with violet colored pill boxes and literature. Big poster on rear wall advertising the Eureka pill. Discovered: Sally Parker, the stenographer, seated at desk writing rapidly. Krome, the bookkeeper, on stool, working over his books. Jimmy, the office boy, enters, right rear with a package of letters. He carries part of them to Nettleton's office, part to John's office and the balance on Krome's desk. Jimmy - Letter for you, Miss Parker! Sally - Here Jimmy! (Handing a telegraph form) Ring for a messenger and get this off - right away. Krome (as Jimmy starts toward Sally) - And ask the shipping clerk about this order. It's over a week behind and the customer's kicking like a mule. Sally - Here Jimmy! Jimmy (taking papers from Krome, Xing to Sally) - Aw, how many t'ings does yer want me to be doin' at de same time? I ain't no orty-mo-bile truck! (Jerks telegarm out of Sally's hand.) Sally - No; you're a noisy little runabout that needs more spanking than you do cranking! (Writes on machine) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.