A few months later. The family and Emily are in the middle of a game of charades. Jacqui is up - pretending to be her mother. She shakes her finger and appears to be talking loudly.
Laurence: Um, a pirate!
Franz: A witch!
Elisabeth: An angry person!
Franz: (Again) A witch!
Emily: Somebody accusing someone...
Abigail: Somebody's in trouble?
Emily: Do we know this person?
Jacqui: (Nods)
Fritz: (Laughing) It's Mother!
Emily and Elisabeth: Fritz!
Jacqui: (Also laughing) Yes!
Laurence: (Who also thinks it's funny) Jacqui, please refrain from making fun of people in future.
Jacqui: (Trying to stop smiling) I'm sorry, Mother.
Laurence: Who's next?
Franz: I am!
Abigail: Oh, dear.
Emily: What?
Abigail: Last time we played this game, in Switzerland, we were guessing what Franz was for nearly twenty minutes!
Emily: Well, let's hope he's got something a little easier up his sleeve.
Franz: I'm ready!
Laurence: Go on.
Franz drops to the ground and lies still. Then he convulses up and down. And lies still.
Jacqui: You're...sick!
Abigail: Having a bad dream?
Emily: A worm!
Fritz: A lizard?
Emily: A snake?
Elisabeth: Bouncing up and down...
Emily: More like waving...
Laurence: Jelly?
Fritz: Sometimes moves, and sometimes not...
Emily: Water!
Abigail: A stream!
Elisabeth: The ocean!
Franz: (Jumps up, nodding) Yes!
Fritz: (Ruffling Franz' hair) That was a hard one.
Franz: Now, Mother!
Elisabeth: Franz, everyone's had a turn.
Laurence: Why don't you play catch with the dogs?
Franz: Okay!
Elisabeth: Be careful!
(Franz exits with dogs)
Elisabeth: Would you girls do me a favor and wash the laundry?
Emily: Of course!
Abigail: Where should we hang the clothesline, Mother?
Elisabeth: Over between those two trees would do nicely.
(Emily and Abi do laundry by the stream.)
Emily: Do we have clothespins?
Abigail: We salvaged some from the ship - on that pile over there.
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Swiss Family Robinson: A Place For All Of Us
FanfictionWhen the Robinson family is shipwrecked on a seemingly deserted island, it seems there is no way for them to escape this jail in the jungle. Fritz and Abigail, the oldest two children, miss their home back in Switzerland, and Fritz especially is an...
