Billina loose in the Kitchen

 

 

Where is this Scene at?  

After Dorothy says good morning to Uncle Henry, and before she goes into the barn to look for eggs, she joins Aunt Em in the kitchen.

 

Description:

Dorothy enters kitchen with a basket.  Aunt Em, busy, radiates mild reproof.

 

Aunt Em: What are you thinking about?

Dorothy: uploads her meager harvest in embarrassed silence.

Aunt Em: Answer me.

Dorothy: ...the ruby slippers...

Aunt Em shuts her eyes with fatigue, hears a clucking, and opens them.

A yellow hen enters through the half-open door and is strutting about.

Aunt Em waves her apron before her and drives the chicken outside.

Aunt Em: Billina!...Shoo! Shoo!...Shoo!

(dismissing Dorothy)

Aunt Em: Go see if Billina laid an egg this morning, will you?

 

Next scene is Dorothy and Billina in the Barn looking for eggs.