Dramatization of the story All about a Dog by A.G. Gardiner

Dramatization of the story 

All about a Dog 

by 

A.G. Gardiner

CHARACTERS 

A woman with Pekinese dog, 

Her Lady Companion ,

Her Male Companion, 

Bus Conductor, 

Other passengers, 

A policeman, 

& 

The Author 

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Output of the Project:


Time : A cold winter night

Place : In a running bus

(A running bus. It is a bitterly cold night, and even at the far end of the bus the east wind cut like a knife. The bus stops and two women and a man get in together and fill the vacant places. The younger woman carries a little Pekinese dog. The conductor comes in and takes their fares. Then his eye rests on the beady-eyed dog. Author realizes trouble coming up.) 

Bus Conductor : You must take that dog out 

The Woman : (Promptly) I shall certainly do nothing of the kind. (loudly) You can take my name and address. 

Bus Conductor : You must take the dog out—that's my order. 

The Woman : (Protesting) I won't go on the top of the bus in such weather. It would kill me. 

Lady Companion : Certainly not. You've got a cough as it is. 

Male Companion : (Angrily) It's nonsense. 

(The conductor pulls the bell, and the bus stops.) 

Bus Conductor : (Loudly announces) This bus doesn't go on until that dog is brought out. 

(He steps on to the pavement and waits like a triumphant. Everybody in the bus is on the side of the lady and her dog.) 

First Passenger : (In raised voices) Shameful. Call the police! Let's all report him! 

Second Passenger : Let's make him give us our fares back. 

Third Passenger : Yes, that's it; let's make him give us our fares back! 

(The little animal sits blinking at the dim lights, unconscious of the trouble he has caused. The conductor comes to the door.) 

Other passengers : (In demanding tone) Give us our fares back- you've engaged to carry us. You can't leave us here all night! 

Bus Conductor : No fares back. 

(In the meantime, two or three passengers get out and disappear into the night. The conductor turns on the pavement, goes to the driver to have a talk with him. Another bus, the last on the road, goes by and it seemed indifferent to the shouts of the passengers to stop. A policeman strolls up and looks in at the door. The passengers burst out with indignant protests and appeals.) 

Policeman : (Softly) Well, he's got his rules, you know. (Then he goes away to stand a few yards down the street. There he is joined by two more constables. Still the little dog blinks at the lights and the conductor walks to and fro like a captain in the hour of victory.) 

A Woman passenger: (In raised voice) It can not be tolerated at all. (But he is cold as the night and hard as the pavement. Then to the policeman) What is duty? Is it your duty to watch the drama? (Then she vanished and the bus was emptying.) 

The Woman : I'll go to the top. 

Male Companion : You'll have pneumonia, the man said. 

(The woman disappears up the stairs, the conductor come back and pulls the bell. The bus goes on. Suddenly the bus develops engine trouble and the conductor goes to the help of the driver. Meanwhile, the lady with the dog steals down the stairs and re-enters the bus. When the engine is put right, the conductor comes back and pulls the bell. Then his eye falls on the dog, and his hand goes to the bell-rope again and the bus stops. The conductor walks on the pavement, the little dog blinks at the lights, the lady again declares that she will not go to the top, and finally goes. The bus gets soon empty) 

Bus Conductor : (like a victorious) I've got my rules. 

The Author : (To the conductor) Rules are necessary things. Some are hard and fast rules, like the rule of the road, which cannot be broken without danger to life and limb. But some are only rules for your guidance, like that rule about the dogs. You can use your common sense here. They are meant to be observed in the spirit, not in the letter, for the comfort of the passengers. You have kept the rule, but broken its spirit. You should mind your rules with a little good will and good temper. Good night. (he quite amiably goes off.)

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