text:  Select a fairy tale or a chapter from the Arabian Nights; write out the _dramatis personae_ taking care that you have plenty of supernaturals genii elves gnomes ghouls or vampires to make up a competent _corps de ballet_; work out your dialogue in slipshod verse with as much slang repartee as you possibly can cram in and let every couplet contain either a pun or some innuendo upon the passing events of the day