Cast
Narrator 1
Narrator 2
Young Man
Will
Mother
Father

(Narrators are seated on stools or chairs at stage right and stage left. Mother and Father are sitting on a bench or chairs up stage facing away from the audience. There is an unoccupied chair or stool in center stage. Will and Young Man are standing at center stage slightly down from the unoccupied chair)

Narrator 1: Two very shabby-looking young men stood at the corner, looking despondently at the carriages that whirled by.

Narrator 2: It was Christmas Eve, and the streets were in that half-liquid, half-congealed condition peculiar to the streets of Chicago at that season of the year.

Young Man: Well, I guess we are at our rope's end, sure enough. How do you feel?

Will: Pretty shaky. The wind's sharp tonight. If I had anything …