EXT YARD.  Two squirrels in a pine tree.

– that’s it.

– it’s what.

– the thinking’s not.

– are you nonsense?

– i don’t have to.

– better to forget.

– yes, forget.

– still.

– still?

– good to think.

– not think. it’s headache.

– yes. yes. still.

– why glum? we see the world from here. the tip of the tallest tree.

– not the tallest.

– and it might well be.

– it might well be.

– look: a nut! How did we miss that one?

– a nut.

– you should go get it. go get it before someone else does. That’s OUR nut!

– OUR nut.

– down the branch. down the tree. down in the pine neeedles… ha ha!

– (joking) throw it up here!

– (muffled by having mouth full – which if understood might read) here i go. up the branch. up the tree.

– ha ha!

– ha ha!

– what happened just now.

– just now? you were scheming to get the nut that fell.

– oh yes. I barely remember that. Somehow, I thought there was more to it. But if you say…

– of course I say!

– of course.

– We’re all right. Thank god.

– Thank god.