“Topolino” is the Italian word for mice, and mice are not usually allowed in school. These stowed away in a pencil case and, after escaping, caused havoc in the classroom.
TOPOLINO
By Michele Lourie
Actor comes dancing on to the stage .
Meet Sami and Cindi – my pet mice. Cheeky little creatures! They like to play tricks like hiding from me.
Speaks to the mice. Yes you do! But I can do a trick of my own. Watch this! O.K. kids, do your stuff!
Does trick turning two mice into one.
See – there are two mice ….. and now – there is only one.
They got me into trouble in school yesterday.
Speaks to mice. You did! Don’t try to wriggle out of it!
They stowed away in my pencil case and jumped out when Miss Potts told us to start writing. She heard my surprised yell (actor yells) and turned from the board to see me diving under Maria’s chair to try to catch Sami. Maria is a new girl. She just came here from Italy and doesn’t speak much English.
Anyway, Maria looked down to see what I was doing and then she saw Cindi making a break across the floor. Maria screamed and flapped her arms (actor imitates Maria’s scream and flapping arms) and started yelling “Topolino”, “Topolino”.
I was still trying to catch the little rats …. Speaks to mice. Sorry, sorry, not rats …. mice, when all my classmates took up the cry. Girls jumped on chairs (actor jumps on chair) and the boys were laughing so much that they were rolling on the floor.
By this time, I’d managed to grab Sami and Cindi and put them back in the pencil case and Miss Potts had no idea what was happening. Still she blamed me for starting what she called “a riot”.
I danced the “Topolino” all through detention that afternoon and now it’s getting lots of hits on U-tube.
Ah, fame!
