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Sioux City
Sue
Readability: 3.0
through 5.0
Interest Level: 2 through 6
Characters:
Seven Narrators
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Sound and
Action Effects:
STAGECOACH: Rattle, rattle
COACH DRIVER: Yippee!
BUCKING BRONCOS: Clap hands on knees
VULTURES: Heh, heh, heh! (sinisterly)
CACTUS: Ouch!
OLD MARE: Neigh
THE LONG RIDER: H'ray
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CATTLE: Moooo
BANDITS: Hssssss!
GUNS: Bang, bang
GOLD DUST: Worth millions!
SIOUX CITY SUE: Eeeeeeeeeek!
SNEEZE: All sneeze
THE END: All shout
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Narrator I: Pulling out of
the little Western town of Jackson Gulch, a STAGECOACH
stopped as the COACH DRIVER reined his BUCKING BRONCOS in
sharply. He pointed off in the distance, past the grazing
CATTLE, the OLD MARE, and the needle-sharp
CACTUS.
Narrator II: "Great day,"
moaned the COACH DRIVER. "Look at those big VULTURES
circling overhead." Climbing from the STAGECOACH, he hurried
through the CACTUS and found a beautiful girl, SIOUX CITY
SUE, tied to a stake.
Narrator III: He began to
untie her. But suddenly, he heard the BUCKING BRONCOS
galloping away with the STAGECOACH. "It's the BANDITS,"
cried beautiful SIOUX CITY SUE. "They have GUNS. They tied
me here to stop the STAGECOACH."
Narrator IV: "Great day,"
moaned the COACH DRIVER. "Then they'll get away with the
GOLD DUST, unless--". He peered past the CATTLE, past the
OLD MARE, past the CACTUS, and past the circling VULTURES.
"Look!" he exclaimed. "It's the LONE RIDER."
Narrator V: Up galloped the
LONE RIDER. Whipping out his GUNS, the LONE RIDER blasted
away, not at the BANDITS, but at the sacks of GOLD DUST. He
hit the sacks and the GOLD DUST floated into the air, making
the BANDITS SNEEZE. Soon they were SNEEZING so hard they
could no longer ride, and the BUCKING BRONCOS slowed
up.
Narrator VI: The LONE RIDER
jumped aboard the STAGECOACH with the COACH DRIVER, holding
SIOUX CITY SUE under one arm, and his smoking GUNS in the
other hand. "You varmints are going to the calaboose," he
said to the BANDITS, "and SIOUX CITY SUE and I are a-getting
hitched."
Narrator VII: "Oh, no we
aren't" cried beautiful SIOUX CITY SUE."That may be the way
it was in the old days, but we women aren't going to stand
for this type of story any longer. Besides, I'm a lady
Marshall in disguise and I'm arresting all of you for bad
acting. And that includes: the COACH DRIVER, the VULTURES,
the CATTLE, the OLD MARE, and the LONE RIDER. THE
END!"
1. Everyone can
perform as one of the narrators and one or more of the
sound effects.
2. The sound effect
people should meet in groups to decide how to produce
their sound and plan actions or movements to accompany
it.
3. The sound effect and
action is performed immediately following the reading of
the character's name.
Adapted and
formatted by Bertie Kingore. Original source
unknown.
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