Change of act

He jumped up on to the bare stage in his complete clown regalia, but it turned out his audience was composed entirely of the skeletons of little children draped upon the rickety, stained chairs. They'd been there so long cobwebs were strung across the chasms and canyons of the bones. He stared for a moment in disbelief, then let out a long sigh and proceeded to tell them the saddest story in the world.