Excerpt from Love, the Sovereign
Interior of rustic summer house, covered with greenery. Doorway center, revealing full depth of stage and landscape of meadow stretching from foreground and woods beyond. Cloth spread on ground and set with dishes. Several ottomans and canvas stools scattered about.
Chorus without as curtain rises.
Song:
"Oh, the merry chime of the summer-time,
In a blossom-laden grove!
Oh, the sweet love-words to the notes of birds,
As the blue sky bends above!
When the mowers come from hillside home,
And children toss the hay,
Till the blast of horn on breeze is born,
And echo sings 'Aye! aye!'
Following song is heard the whetting of scythes; then, as dialogue begins, half-a-dozen mowers, bending to their work, pass across foreground of meadow in a rhythmic line, visible for a moment through doorway. Accompanying this, the swish of the scythes, gradually dying away. Whirr of locust and occasional bird song heard throughout.
Enter Mrs. Saxby and Mrs. Joyce, bearing things which they place on cloth.
Mrs. Saxby - The mowers seem unusually merry this evening, do they not?
Mrs. Joyce - Yes; a day's hard work has little effect on their sturdy muscles when there's pleasure a-foot. They are looking forward to a grand time to-night.
Mrs. S. - Indeed! And what is that?
Mrs. J. - Why, haven't you heard? Jed has promised them a play-party and the barn is all cleared for it. If you never saw our old-fashioned games you will be interested.
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