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by St. John Greer Ervine

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JOHN FERGUSON A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS BY S T . JOHN G. ERVW . E LONDON GEORGE ALLEN UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W. C. r JOHN FERGUSON BY THE SAME AUTHOR. NO KELS MRS. MARTINS MAN. ALICE AND A FAMILY. I CHANGING WINDS. THE FOOLISH LOVERS, SUOR T STORIES EIGHT OCLOCK AND OTHER STUDIES. PLR YS THE MAGNANIMOUS LOVER MIXED MARWGE. JANE CLEGG. POLITICAL STUD Y SIR EDW...moreJOHN FERGUSON A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS BY S T . JOHN G. ERVW . E LONDON GEORGE ALLEN UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W. C. r JOHN FERGUSON BY THE SAME AUTHOR. NO KELS MRS. MARTINS MAN. ALICE AND A FAMILY. I CHANGING WINDS. THE FOOLISH LOVERS, SUOR T STORIES EIGHT OCLOCK AND OTHER STUDIES. PLR YS THE MAGNANIMOUS LOVER MIXED MARWGE. JANE CLEGG. POLITICAL STUD Y SIR EDWARD CARSON AND THE ULSTER MOVEMENT. TO THE MEMORY OF MY GRANDMOTHZR MARGXRET GREER CHARACTERS JOHN FERGUSO a N fa , u nm. SARAH F ERGUSO hi N s , w ife. ANDREW F ERGUSO h N is , s on. HANNAHF ERGUSO h N is , d anghter. JAMSS C AESAR a , g rocer. HEKRYW IT RO a W far , r nm and miller. CLUTIE JOHNM AGRAT a I I b , e ggar. s na E AWAWIIINNEE a posiman. SERGEIA R NAGH R A . I N . C , . TWO CONSTABLES. A CROWD OF MEN ASD VOI. IE B N O , YS AND GIRLS. The Scene is laid in the kitchen of a farm-house in C o u n Do etn, Tha Time is the late sufrzmer of the year 18. CLUTIE is a slang expression meaning l-handed. There is an interval of an hour beiween the First and Second Acts , of a night between the Second and Third and of a fortnight betwee6 the Third and Fourth. ACT I I t is t h afternoon of a warm day in the late surrzmer of the year 188-, and soft sunlight enters the kitchen of JOHN FER GUSONS farm through the windows and the open door.. The kitchen is comfortably fzrrszished, although the FERGUSONS are no longer prosperoz sf, o r MRS. F ERGUSONw, Ito is now sifting by the dom, mending socks, takes great pride in maintaining the appearance of fortune. She is a short, stout, healthy woman, pleasant and agreeable evefi when she is as harassed as she now is, and her mind is nzozilded i n the kindliness of an Ulster woman. S ze is not a very intelligent woman, and so her sympathies are sortzetinzes fEnttened by her lack 4 perception, but, within her limitations, she is an excellerzt wife and n very good n otherr Her husband, JOHNF ERGUSONi, s sittitzg in front of the tzwf re, with a rug wrapped round his legs. He is reading a large Bible to himself, and his . lips move as if he were silently pronouncing each word o himse2f. He is an elderly, tired, delicate-looking man, and Itis dark beard is turning grey. His eyes are set deeply in his head, and they are full of a dark, glowing colour. His voice is slow but very yfirm, altIzough his wmds aye gentle. He looks like a portrait of Moses-not that Moses who led the Israelites out of Egypt and toas a great captain of izosts, but the Moses 7 8 John Ferguson who surveyed the Promised Land from Mount Nebo in the Plains of Moab. The furniture of the kitchen is good and substantial, and of t b sort that one sees in a decent homestead. TJze door leading to the loaning loanie or lane in front of the house is in the wall at the back of the scenei A person entering the kitchen from the loanie would have a large mindow on his right hand, in the same wall as the door, and a staircase on his l kndr Beyond the staircase, near the front of the scene, is a door leading to other rooms and also to the sczcllery and back 4 the farm. The replace is in the wall opposite that in which the staircase is set. Under the window is a large sofa. A dresser is set between the foot of the staircase and the door leading to the yard. A large table sits in the ceittre of the room. JOHN FERGUSONS chair now stands against one end of this table, so that he can place his Bible on it easily when he is tired of holding it. The mnaments are those customary in such a hotwe. Over the5replace a gurr is suspendedd SARAH F ERGUSON I . wonder where Hannah is, I havent seen her for an hour past. JOHN FERGUSON w ithout looking Shes mebbe in the fields with Andrew, Listen to this, Sarah He raises his voice as he reads from the thirtieth of the Psalms of David...(less)

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Published December 28th 2005 by Kessinger Publishing

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