SCENE.--Same as Act I. Three days later.
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JACK ABBOTT, } _Tuft's sub-freshmen, Stanley M. Brown
FRED LAWTON, } camping with Higgins_ Arthur J. Anderson
RAYMOND FITZHENRY, _a Harvard student_ Arthur T. Hale
DICK NORTON,} _off-hill engineers_ Ernest A. Larrabee
TOM CROSBY, } Ferdinand Bryham
MARJORIE TYNDALL, _George's cousin; a
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ALICE BENNETT, } Dorothy F. Entwistle
AGNES ARABELLA BATES,} _Jackson girls_ Edith H. Bradford
RUTH FRENCH, } Marjorie L. Henry
BLANCHE WESTCOTT, } Beatrice L. Davis
MRS. HIGGINS, _the chaperon. George's
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MRS. SPARROW, _a farmer's wife_. (_Not in the original cast._)
LIZZIE,} _her daughters_.
MANDY, }
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ACT I.--The Girls' Camp at Sherwood, 7 A. M.
ACT II.--The Fellows' Camp at Sherwood, 8 A. M.
ACT III.--Same as Act I, 10 A. M.
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Transcriber's notes:
The following is a list of changes made to the original.
The first line is the original line, the second the corrected one.
HILDA. Don't you know about our teapot? (_Takes teapot from mantle._)
HILDA. Don't you know about our teapot? (_Takes teapot from mantel._)
PROF. G. (_picking up teapot and replacing it on mantle_).
PROF. G. (_picking up teapot and replacing it on mantel_).
End of Project Gutenberg's The Templeton Teapot, by Grace Cooke Strong