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WAITER : Th en obviously, it wasn’t poison. You could have eaten it assured of your safety.
MAN : A lot of good that does me now.

WAITER : Well . . . you could lick the guinea pig.

MAN : DON’T BE DISGUSTING!

WAITER : Fine, I’ll bring you another bowl of soup. We can skip the guinea pig. We’ll just dip his
head in so he can get a little sip of it.
MAN : NO! Certainly not!

WAITER : Just a sip?

MAN : No. Bring me a new bowl of soup and don’t let any furry creatures within a foot of it!
Understand?

WAITER : Fine. It’s your life. (Exits)
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MAN : (He starts watching the guinea pig and baby talking to it. Th en he is startled by
something.) WAITER!

WAITER : (Th e waiter approaches the table again.) Yes sir?

MAN : My guinea pig just died.

WAITER : Ooooh, too bad. Maybe he had a
heart condition. • Do you think that the restaurant
was popular, going by the dialogues
MAN : Unbelievable! Someone is trying
between the customer and the waiter?
to poison me!
• Which animals are usually used in
WAITER : No, no, sir. I’m sure your guinea a laboratory for research purposes?
pig’s untimely death had nothing Name a few.
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to do with the soup. He fi nished • As the guinea pig had drunk all the
the entire bowl. If your soup were soup, what did the waiter suggest the
poisonous, he would surely have customer do?
kicked off earlier. Here is your
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new bowl. Enjoy it.

MAN : NO WAY! Th ere are some slow-reacting poisons, you know! I’m sure somebody is
trying to kill me! Bring me a new guinea pig right away!

WAITER : As you wish, sir.
(Blackout)

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baby talking: talking in a childish way, as if talking to untimely: happening at an unfortunate or awkward
small children time
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kicked off : died
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