'Jasper, the All-Excellent'
A play by Lilian Douglas-Stewart from the short story 'The Old Lion' by Walter de la Mare
Music played by Ann Driver
Production by Josephine Plummer
There was once a sailor of the name of John Bumps. He had bright blue eyes and wore gold rings in his ears, and he had often been round the world. He had sailed into most of its ports in all kinds of weather; and one day, a little the right side of the rainy season, he came again to the west coast of Africa. His ship, The Old Lion (and he was her second mate), had been sailing down that great coast, past the Canaries and the Green Islands, past the Ivory and the Gold and the Slave Coasts to Banana and the noble Congo: and not long after that Mr. Bumps went ashore, and he bought a monkey ...

5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Rev. R. T. Brooks