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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Social Stage: Original Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Entertainments for Home Recreation, Schools, and Public ExhibitionsLilly ashton, their daughter (sixteen years of age). Patty jones, a Yankee girl (twenty-two years of age).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten ...

Excerpt from Handy Dramas for Amateur Actors: New Pieces for Home, School and Public EntertainmentAbner. Light pants, white vest, shoes, white stockings, Panama hat, long, white hair, dark coat, thin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digit...

Excerpt from The Handy Speaker: Comprising Fresh Selections in Poetry and Prose, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, for Reading Clubs, School Declamation, Home and Public EntertainmentsTo still the schoolboys' cry for new pieces, to place in substantial shape many ¿oating gems of poetry and rare bits of humorous story, has been the aim in the preparation of this volume. Combining as it does the contents of four parts of the popular series known as...

Excerpt from Gentlemen of the Jury: A FarceEnter from R. All the characters, in the order in which their names are written, single file, across Stage, and face Audience. Door at R. Is slammed and locked.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to di...

Excerpt from A Mysterious Disappearance: A FarceTitles in this Type are New Plays. Titles in this Type are Temperance Plays.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing i...

Excerpt from The Duchess of Dublin: A FarceLucy. Just as if I' cared. I'm sure I'd rather help' him up hill, than to wait for the elegant mansion he hopes to rear on the summit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wo...

Excerpt from The Reading Club and Handy Speaker, Vol. 18: Being Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic Selections in Prose and Poetry, for Readings and RecitationsHe was a man of gloomy mood, And few his converse sought, But, it was said, in Solitude His conscience with him wrought, And there, befme his mental eye, 2 Some hideous vision brought.There was not one in all the house Who did not fear his frown.About the PublisherForgo...

Excerpt from The Flowing Bowl: A Drama in Three ActsMrs. M. Ah! The junior partner is a lucky man. The eloquence Of his appeal to a jury must work wonders, when the mere mention of his name has such an effect upon so cool and so apathetic a nature as yours, Marion. We must have him down here.Marion. Not for the world! Our social circle could have no charms for him.Mrs. M. Well, I don't know about that. Here we are comfortably settled in a snug...

Excerpt from Seeing the ElephantA Bull in a China Shop. A Corri ecly in Two Acts. By Charles Mat thews. 0 Male, 4 Female characters.Another Glass. A Drama in 'orge Act. By Thomas Morton. 6 Male, 3 Female characters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech...

Excerpt from The Mimic Stage: A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces, for Public Exhibitions and Private TheatricalsThe gratifying success of a previous volume of amateur dramas, and the increasing demand for pieces of a light character suitable for representation without the usual costly theatrical accessories, has induced the writer to prepare a second volume for publication. Like the first, it contains pieces which have been s...

Excerpt from The Boston Dip: A Comedy, in One ActIda. Especially as those charming waltzers, Messrs. Richard Dashe'r and Lavender Kids, the glass of fashion and the mould of form, are to' honor us with their presence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art te...

Excerpt from Capuletta, or Romeo and Juliet Restored: An Operatic BurlesqueCap. N ow is the winter of my discontent Made glorious summer by this dark night sent, And all the troubles gathering o'er my house In inky darkness I may bid vamouee.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from Little Brown JugHannah. Act 1 and 2, Plain calico dresses. Act 3. White dress.Mary. Act 1, Red or brown dress, white collar, neat apron, sleeves rolled up. Act 2, Figured muslin.. Act 3, White.Sally. Act 1, Calico dress, white collar and cuffs, bonnet or hat. Acts 2 and 3, Neat calico or muslin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book...

Excerpt from My Brother's Keeper: A Drama in Three ActsHit Him, He has No Friends. A Farce in One Act. By E. Yates and N. H. Harrington. 7 Male, 3 Female characters.The Christening. A Farce in One Act. By J. B. Buckstone. 5 Male, 6 Female characters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from Forty Minutes With a Crank or the Seldarte Craze, 1889: A FarceProfessor A Molt. Iron-gray wig, bald on top, old-fashioned suit of any kind spectacles worn low down on his nose, so that he looks over the top of them. His manner is quick and jerky. The description of the system on page 9 should be given with rapid but distinct utterance, great enthusiasm, and many gestures.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

Excerpt from The Reading Club: 50 Selections in Prose and PoetryO'er which our Northern squadrons faced The hard-pressed Southern ranks, And where Hood's surly ambush crouched Along the river's marge, The pickets brought a prisoner in, Captured in some brief charge.This was a stripling trumpeter, A mere lad, fitter far To grace some loving mother's hearth Than these grim scenes Of war, But still with proud defiant inien He bore his soldier's c...