The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles
by George Bernard Shaw
Immigration office in a tropical port in the British Empire. The office is an extension of the port and customs hangars on one side and the railway station on the other. The signs direct passengers through the doors that open to the right and left, respectively, to customs and trains. The immigration officer, an unsatisfying young man with unhealthy habits, sits at his desk in the middle of the room. His clerk stands at a table against the wall next to customs. The officer wears tropical clothes, neither too tidy nor too clean. A clerk in a battered dark lounge outfit... a scream cut short with a splash. E. O. sits down at the table and angrily attacks the remnants of the feast.
