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**//Christopher Tan : Clara and Baker //**
==Preview (All): //Good morning/afternoon, gentlemen. We are going to present the story of Heidi, which is about the coming-of-age of a girl named// //Heidi. So far Heidi has been to Frankfurt and met a girl named Clara. Now we join Heidi, Clara, Uncle and Peter when Uncle is going to bring Heidi and Clara to the flower fields on the mountain slopes. We hope that you will enjoy our performance. Thank you very much!//== ==**//Grandfather (Khai Loong) //****//: How is this, have you wheeled the chair away, Heidi? (Inquisitive voice. Makes a action like pushing a wheelchair.) //**== ==**//Heidi (Darren) //****//: I have been looking everywhere for it, grandfather; you said it was standing ready outside. (Spread arms and then point outdoors.) //**== ==**//Narrator (Chavez) //****//: At that moment the wind, which had risen suddenly, blew open the shed door and sent it banging back against the wall. (Make a slamming motion with my arms) //**== ==**//Heidi (Darren) //****//: It must have been the wind, grandfather (Anxious voice). Oh! If it has blown the chair all the way down to Dorfli, we will not get it back in time, and will not be able to go. //**== ==**//Grandfather (Khai Loong): //****//If it has rolled as far as that it will never come back, for it is in a hundred pieces by now. But it’s a curious thing to have happened //****//for the chair would have to turn a corner before turning downhill. (Curious Voice) //**== ==**//Clara (Christopher) //****//: Oh, I am sorry, for we shall not be able to go today or perhaps any other day. I shall have to go home, I suppose, if I have no chair. Oh, I am so sorry! (Make a sorry expression) //**== ==**//Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: But Heidi looked towards her grandfather with an expression of confidence. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Grandfather, you will be able to do something, won’t you, so that it need not be as Clara says, and so that she is not obliged to go home. (Look at Khai Loong defiantly and say the words confidently) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Grandfather (Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Well, for the present we will go up the mountain as we had arranged, and then later on we will see what can be done. (Gruff, deep voice and shrug.) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: He went indoors, fetched out a pile of shawls, and laying them on the sunniest spot he could find and set Clara down upon them. Then he fetched the children's morning milk and had out his two goats. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Grandfather (Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Now then we will start; the goats can come with us. (Make a following action with one hand) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Heidi was pleased at this and walked on after her grandfather with an arm over one of the goat’s necks. When they breached the spot the goats usually pastured, they were surprised to find them already feeding there, climbing about the rocks, and Peter was with them, laying his full length on the ground. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Grandfather (Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: I’ll teach you another time to go by like that, you lazy rascal! What do you mean by that? <span style="color: rgb(14,46,204);">(In an angry voice and waving shepherd's stick around) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Peter //**<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: But no one was up! (Protesting voice) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Grandfather (Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Have you seen anything of the chair? //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Peter //**<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Of what chair? //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Uncle said no more. He spread the shawls on the sunny slope, set Clara upon them and asked if she was comfortable. (Make spreading action with hand.) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: As comfortable as in my chair and this seems the most beautiful spot. Oh Heidi, it is lovely, it is lovely! //**==

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==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: The sky was dark blue, and not a single cloud was to be seen from one horizon to the other. The mountain wind blew refreshingly around the children as they sat on the slope. The experience was enjoyable to Clara and Heidi. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Heidi started thinking that she might just go over to the flower field to see if the flowers were fully blown and looking as lovely as the year before. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Would you think me unkind, Clara, if I... left you for a few minutes? (Stammering) I will run there and back very quickly. I want to see how the flowers are looking – but wait. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Heidi ran and picked a bunch or two of green leaves, then took hold of Snowflake and led her up to Clara. //**==

**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: There, now you won't be alone. //**
==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Heidi gave the goat a little push to show her she was to lie down near Clara, which the animal quite understood. Heidi ran off, and Clara began to hold out the leaves one by one to Snowflake, who began to move towards her in a confiding manner and ate the leaves in Clara's hand, Snowflake liked this peaceful and sheltered way of feeding, for when with the other goats she had much to endure from the larger and stronger goats. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Oh, Snowflake, how delightful it is up here! If only it could be like this forever! //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Heidi had meanwhile reached her flower field, and as she caught sight of it, she uttered a cry of joy. The whole ground in front of her was a mass of shimmering gold, where the cistus flowers spread their yellow blossoms. The scent however, came from the little brown flowers, which rose here and there among the yellow blossoms. Heidi stood and gazed and breathed in the delicious air. Suddenly she turned round and reached Clara's side out of breath. //**== ==**//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi: Oh, you must come, it is more beautiful than you can imagine, and perhaps this evening it may not be so lovely. I believe I could carry you, don't you think I could? //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Why, Heidi, what can you be thinking of, you are smaller in size than me? Oh, if only I could walk! //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Heidi looked round as if in search of something; a new idea had evidently come into her head. Peter was sitting up and above looking down on the two children. He had been sitting and staring before him in the same way for hours, as if he could not make up what he saw. He thought his eyes must deceive him, and yet there she was and no mistake about it. Heidi now looked up to where he was sitting. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Peter, come down here!(Gesture for Khai Loong to come to him. ) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Peter //**<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: I don't wish to come. //**==

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==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: But you are to, you must; I cannot do it alone, and you must come here and help me; make haste and come down. (Urgent voice) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Peter //**<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: I shall do nothing of the kind. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: If you don’t come at once, Peter, I will do something to you that you won’t like; I mean what I say. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Peter //**<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **//<span style="color: rgb(227,108,10); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> “I am coming, and you won’t do what you said?” //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Peter appeared now so submissive with fear that Heidi felt quite far sorry for him and answered. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: No, no, of course not, come along with me, there’s anything to be afraid of in what I want you to do. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: You must put one arm well round my neck – so, and put the other through Pete’s and lean firmly upon it, then we shall be able to carry you.” //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Peter, however, had never given his arm to anyone in his life. Clara put hers, in his, but he kept his own hanging down straight beside him like a stick. (Put hand out straight and curl it around and then put hand down like a stick.) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: That’s not the way, Peter. You must put your arm out in the shape of a ring, and Clara must put hers through it and lean her weight upon you, and whatever you do, don’t let your arm give way; like that I am sure we shall be able to manage. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Peter did as he was told, but still they did not get on very well. Clara tried to use her own feet a little, but each time drew them quickly back. //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> == ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Put your foot down firmly once, I am sure it will hurt you less after that.” //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher): //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Do you… think so? (Hesitating voice) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: But she followed Heidi’s advice and ventured one firm step on the ground and then another; she called out a little as she did it; then she lifted her foot and again and went on.(Walk as if legs on fire, put feet down firmly once, then put feet firmly down again. ) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Oh, that was less painful already! (Joyful voice) //**==

**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Try again. (Encouraging voice) //**
==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Clara steps out with a painful face. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: I can do it, Heidi! Look! Look! I can make proper steps! (Crying out with delight) //**== ==**//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren): Can you really make steps, can you really walk? Really walk? By yourself? Oh, if only grandfather were here! You can walk now, Clara, you can walk! (Happy and excited voice) //**==

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==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Now we shall be able to come up here together everyday, and just go where we like; and you will be able your life to walk about as I do, and not have to be pushed in a chair, and will get quite strong and well. It is the greatest happiness we could have had!” //**==

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==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: When all three had got back to the old quarters, Grandfather gave them food to eat, plenty of food to eat. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: There will be plenty of ours left for Peter to still have more. //**==

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==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: When Grandfather appeared, Heidi rushed up to him, anxious to tell him the good news. She was so excited that she could hardly say out the words, but he soon understood, and a look of pleasure came to his face. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(33,88,104); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Grandfather (Khai Loong) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: So we made the effort, and we won the day!(Cheering hand gesture.) //**==

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==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Then he lifted her up and supported Clara, along with Heidi skipping triumphantly beside them. Soon, they were back at home. When Peter got to Dorfli that evening, he found a large group of people gathering round a certain spot, pushing one another and looking over other shoulders to catch a glimpse of something lying on the ground. He heard various opinions, but one by the baker scared him. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(184,188,0); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Baker (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: No doubt the gentleman in Frankfurt when he hears about this will make inquiries about it.(Shaking his head.) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: He was sure that a constable from Frankfurt would come and expose him. He would be carted off to prison, and he was sure of it. He was filled with pure terror and trembled with fear. He reached home in this disturbed state of mind. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(229,127,159); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Brigitta (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Peter has been eating sorrel again, and is evidently in pain by the way he is groaning. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(99,36,35); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Grandmother (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: You must give him a little more bread to take with him; give him a bit of mine tomorrow. (Sympathizing voice) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: The children lay that night in bed looking out at the stars. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: I have been thinking all day what a happy thing it is that God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray. If he knows there is something better for us, have you felt like that? //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Why do you ask me that tonight all of a sudden? //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Because I prayed so hard when I was in Frankfurt that I might go home at once, and because I was not allowed to, I thought that God had forgotten me. And now you see, if I had went away at first when I wanted to, you would never have come here, and would never have got well. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Clara had in her turn become thoughtful. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: But, Heidi, in that case, we ought never to pray for anything, as God always intends something better for us than know or wish for. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: You must not think it is like that, Clara. We must go on praying for everything, so that God may know we do not forget that it all comes from Him. And if He does not give us what we ask for we must not think that He has not heard us and leave off praying, but we must still pray to Him. //**==

**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: How did you learn that? //**
==**//<span style="color: rgb(64,49,82); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Heidi (Darren) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Grandma explained it to me first of all, and then when it all happened just as she said, I knew it myself, and I think, Clara, we ought certainly to thank God tonight that you can walk now, and that He has made us so happy. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Yes, Heidi, I am sure you are right, and I am glad you reminded me. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Both children said their prayers and went to sleep. The following days were some of the most joyous that Clara had spent on the mountains. She awoke each morning with a happy voice. //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(79,98,40); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Clara (Christopher) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: I am well now! I am well now! I can walk myself like other people! (In a loud and excited voice. Jumping up and down like a mad man) //**== ==**//<span style="color: rgb(84,141,212); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Narrator (Chavez) //****//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">: Then came the walking, and every day she found it easier and was able to walk a longer distance. The movement gave her a great appetite that the grandfather cut the bread and butter thicker and thicker every day, and was well pleased to see it disappear. And so another week went by and the day came, to bring grandma up the mountain for her second visit. //**==

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