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Hesperides
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"She wouldn't stay at home to be queen for a day," June Star said without raising her yellow head.

The children's mother didn't seem to hear her but the eight-year-old boy, John Wesley, a stocky child with glasses, said, "If you don't want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay at home?" He and the little girl, June Star, were reading the funny papers on the floor.

Bailey didn't look up from his reading so she wheeled around then and faced the children's mother, a young woman in slacks, whose face was as broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied around with a green head-kerchief that had two points on the top like rabbit's ears. She was sitting on the sofa, feeding the baby

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennes- see and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she lived with, her only boy. He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table, bent over the orange sports section of the

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ESTRAGON:
That we were to wait.

VLADIMIR:
What?

ESTRAGON:
(despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You're sure it was here?

VLADIMIR:
We're waiting for Godot.

ESTRAGON:
Why not?

VLADIMIR:
We can't.

ESTRAGON:
Charming spot. (He turns, advances to front, halts facing auditorium.) Inspiring prospects. (He turns to Vladimir.) Let's go.

VLADIMIR:
Pah!
He spits. Estragon moves to center, halts with his back to auditorium.

ESTRAGON:
People are bloody ignorant apes.
He rises painfully, goes limping to extreme left, halts, gazes into distance off with his hand screening his eyes, turns, goes to extreme right, gazes into distance. Vladimir watches him, then goes and picks up the boot, peers into it, drops it hastily.

VLADIMIR:
Everybody. It's the only version they know.

ESTRAGON:
Who believes him?

VLADIMIR:
But all four were there. And only one speaks of a thief being saved. Why believe him rather than the others?

ESTRAGON:
Well? They don't agree and that's all there is to it.

VLADIMIR:
But one of the four says that one of the two was saved.

ESTRAGON:
And why not?