A Rural Ruse (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Scene. - Aunt Content's kitchen. Window at one side. Pantry door at the other. Outside door at back. Furnished with stove, table. cupboard, large high-back chair, and two or three common chairs.

Pansy (discovered at wash-tub; sings).

"I love my love in the morning;
I love my love in the night;
I love my love the whole day long;
And he is my delight."

(Walks over and throws garment into clothes-basket.) There, thank goodness, that's the last! Oh, my, but I'm tired to death! Guess I'll read a while and rest. (Hunts in cupboard.) Why, where - where - here it is! Such a jolly book! (Sits.) Aunt Content don't know I've got a new novel, or she'd be just crazy.

(Enter Solomon Slenker.)

Sol. S. Hello, Pansy! Aunt to hum to-day?

Pansy. Why, Uncle Sol! I'm glad to see you. Come right in and take a seat. No; Aunt Content is out, doing some errands, but I guess she'll be back soon. Come in, won't you, and wait for her.

Sol. S. Wal, I don't keer ef I do. My harness guv out on the way down Jim Parson's hill, and I sez, sez I, I'll jest tie up my hoss in the meetin'-house shed, an' whiles I'm a-splicin' this gear I'll run in an'see the Weston gals a spell. (Sits and begins to mend harness.)

Pansy. The Weston girls? Oh!

Sol. S. That's all right, ain't it? You an' your Aunt Content might both be called gals, I take it, seein' ez she's a-bloomin' alone ez yit on the stalk, without no twin rose blushin' beside her.

Pansy. Why, Uncle Sol, you're getting poetical! How are all your folks to-day?

Sol. S. Right peart an' smart, Pansy. To be shore, when a man's blessed with nine beautiful sproutin' young olive branches, ez I be, there's bound to be some on 'em out o' kilter. But jest at present speakin', things is purty quiet up our way.

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