Author:  Zora Neale Hurston

Release Date:  November 29, 2005 [eBook #17187]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ISO-646-us (us-ASCII)

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Note:  These plays have been transcribed from original manuscripts. 
      There are pencilled notations possibly by Ms. Hurston herself. 
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         [Handwritten:(text)],
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      mistakes.  Uncorrected typographical errors were left as in the
      original.  Words which were underlined in the text are enclosed
      by underscores ("_").

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THREE PLAYS

Lawing and Jawing
Forty Yards
Woofing

by

Zora Neale Hurston

LAWING AND JAWING

by Zora [Handwritten:  (Neale)] Hurston

TIME:  Present

Place:  Way cross Georgia

Scene:  Judge Dunfumy’s Court.

Persons:  Judge Dunfumy, Officer Simpson and another, Jemima
               Flapcakes, Cliff Mullins, John Barnes, two lawyers,
               a clerk, a pretty girl and her escort.

Setting:  Usual court-room arrangement, except that there is a
               large red arrow pointing off-stage left, marked
               “To Jail.”

Action:  At rise everybody is in place except the Judge. 
               Suddenly the clerk looks off-stage right and motions
               for everybody to rise.  Enter the Judge.  He wears a
               black cap and gown and has his gavel in his hand. 
               The two policemen walk behind him holding up his gown. 
               He mounts the bench and glares all about him before he
               seats