A Dramatic Reader: Book Five Augusta
Stevenson
Plays for the Home "
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Jean Valjean (translated and abridged from
Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables)
S.E. Wiltse (Ed.)
The Little Men Play (adapted from Louisa
Alcott’s Little Men)
E.L. Gould
The Little Women Play " "
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The St. Nicholas Book of Plays Century
Company
The Silver Thread and Other Folk Plays Constance
Mackay
Patriotic Plays and Pageants "
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Fairy Tale Plays and How to Act Them Mrs. Hugh
Bell
Festival Plays Marguerite
Merington
Short Plays from Dickens H.B.
Browne
The Piper Josephine
Preston Peabody
The Blue Bird Maurice
Maeterlinck
Riders to the Sea J.M.
Synge
She Stoops to Conquer Oliver
Goldsmith
The Rivals Richard
Brinsley Sheridan
Prince Otto R.L.
Stevenson
The Canterbury Pilgrims Percy
Mackaye
The Elevator William
Dean Howells
The Mouse Trap "
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The Sleeping Car William
Dean Howells
The Register "
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The Story of Waterloo Henry
Irving
The Children’s Theatre
A. Minnie Herts
The Art of Play-writing Alfred
Hennequin
A COMBAT ON THE SANDS
MARY JOHNSTON
(From To Have and to Hold, Chapters XXI and XXII)
A few minutes later saw me almost upon the party gathered about the grave. The grave had received that which it was to hold until the crack of doom, and was now being rapidly filled with sand. The crew of deep-dyed villains worked or stood or sat in silence, but all looked at the grave, and saw me not. As the last handful of sand made it level with the beach, I walked into their midst, and found myself face to face with the three candidates for the now vacant captaincy.
“Give you good-day, gentlemen,” I cried. “Is it your captain that you bury or one of your crew, or is it only pezos and pieces of eight?
“The sun shining on so much bare steel hurts my eyes,” I said. “Put up, gentlemen, put up! Cannot one rover attend the funeral of another without all this crowding and display of cutlery? If you will take the trouble to look around you, you will see that I have brought to the obsequies only myself.”
One by one cutlass and sword were lowered, and those who had drawn them, falling somewhat back, spat and swore and laughed. The man in black and silver only smiled gently and sadly. “Did you drop from the blue?” he asked. “Or did you come up from the sea?”