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By Jack Joseph Smith

The women and the dog were followed in by The Prankster's duck. The duckman was not in costume. Rather he made use of mime, with one exception. He had props. Eggs that were designed with intricate colors put to lime. He had a bag tied to his back, with a slippery zipper. From it, hard boiled the eggs would drop, when his fingers unzipped. They would roll on the floor, crack- ed colors ready to be stripped for munching.

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This page turns a duckman performance into a small surreal act, using mime, eggs, and theatrical entry to give the scene a comic but slightly unstable charge.

The page is interested in staged behavior and props rather than inward reflection. The image of eggs dropping from the performer's back keeps the scene playful, but it also makes the act feel precarious and absurd in a way that fits the manuscript's larger world.