of money to help him. He owes me a large sum. With you my wife, I could
not be hard with him. Without you, I must deal with him justly, man to
man, and claim my own.
_Mary._ Claim it at once. Drive us forth, for then comes my triumph.
There’s a brave, true man waiting for me. Already we have planned a new
home, where my parents will be tenderly cared for, and two loving hearts
and four willing hands will rebuild all your craft has destroyed. Ay,
Henry Douglas, do your worst! You are a villain, and I hate and defy you!
_Douglas._ (_Rising._) Enough. Mary Nutter, I will take you at your word.
I _will_ do my worst. You have turned all my love to hate. I’ll woo no
more. But, mark me, your father shall be driven from his home; your
lover--curse him!--shall be shot like a dog, though I hang for it!
_Hannah._ (_Outside, L._) Mary, dear! Mary!
_Douglas._ Hark! There’s the voice of one very, very dear to you. You
have defied me, Mary. I’ll strike my first blow there.
_Mary._ My mother! No, no. You would not be so cruel. Spare her, I
entreat you!
_Douglas._ No, no. You are too late.
_Enter HANNAH, feebly, R., in a white wrapper._
_Hannah._ Mary, Mary, dear! don’t you hear me?
_Mary._ (_Running to her, and leading her to lounge._) Yes, mother; I was
just coming. Why did you leave your room?
_Hannah._ It was so lonesome there, Mary, dear; and, you know, to-day is
Will’s birthday. Yes, to-day he is a man. And I have felt all day that I
should see him; that to-day he would think of his poor mother, and find
the way home to her.
_Mary._ Yes, mother, it is his birthday; but he is far, far away.
_Hannah._ Yes; but not too far away to reach his mother. I remember,
as though it were but yesterday, when he was twelve years old. What
a bright, noble boy he was! He came to my side, put his arms about my
neck, and said, “Mother, I shall soon be a man!” Dear boy, he was a
brave little man then. “And when I am a man, the first thing I shall do
will be to run to you and kiss you, and thank you for making me a good,
true man.” Dear boy! and I haven’t seen him for two years! and he don’t
write to me; and you all look strange when I ask for him. But he’ll come
to-day, I know he will, for he promised; and he never broke a promise he
gave his mother--never.
_Douglas._ Ah, it’s shameful, shameful that a boy with so good a mother
should turn out so bad!
_Mary._ (_To DOUGLAS._) Hush! For Heaven’s sake be merciful!
_Hannah._ What’s that! Who spoke? Who said my boy turned out bad?
_Mary._ Nobody, mother. Don’t mind that man. He’s deceived himself. It’s
Henry Douglas.
_Hannah._ Henry Douglas? What does he know about my Will?
_Douglas._ Too much. He has deceived me. I thought him a true, noble boy;
but he robbed me.
_Enter JARIUS, C._
_Jarius._ (_Aside._) Jes’ so. He’s got to work. Where on airth is that
Ned?
_Hannah._ Robbed you! My Will? ’Tis false!
_Douglas._ I’m sorry to say ’tis true.
_Mary._ Mr. Douglas, have you no pity?
_Douglas._ You would have it so, Mary. I am not to blame.
_Jarius._ (_Aside._) Consarn it, why don’t that boy come. (_He fidgets in
the doorway, looking off, and then watching DOUGLAS._)
_Douglas._ Yes, Mrs. Nutter; I am sorry to distress you; but ’tis best
you know the truth. While in my employ, Will robbed me of two hundred
dollars.
_Hannah._ No, no; you are mistaken. My boy, my noble boy! I’ll not
believe it.
_Jarius._ (_Aside._) Consarn his ugly picter! I shall split! Where is
that boy?
_Douglas._ Yes, he robbed me; forged my name to a check. ’Tis here.
(_Showing check._)
_Hannah._ O, Heavens! My boy! my boy!
_Douglas._ Drew the money from the bank--
(_NED appears, C. Gives JARIUS a telegram._)
_Mary._ Villain, you are killing her.--Mother, ’tis false! ’tis false!
_Douglas._ ’Tis true. I can prove it.
_Jarius._ (_Coming down C., with telegram._) Jes’ so. (_Snatches the
check._) Phœnix Bank: two hundred dollars. Humbug! that’s no forgery.
_Douglas._ No forgery? Is not that my name?
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. But here’s a little telegram from the Phœnix Bank.
(_Reads._) “Have examined the books. Henry Douglas never had funds in our
bank.”
_Douglas._ Fool! what business have you to meddle in this matter?
_Jarius._ Why, bless your soul, I’m one of the directors in that air
Phœnix.
_Douglas._ Confusion!
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. Mrs. Nutter, don’t be scart. Will’s all right on that
p’int.
_Hannah._ I knew he was. Poor boy, he has enemies who would rob him of
his good name.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. But this ere sneak didn’t make much of a speck when
_he_ tried it on. Mr. Douglas, I’d git eout if I was in yeour place.
_Douglas._ Mr. Jarius Jordan, your bare assertion that you are a director
in this bank will not serve. I still hold my charge of forgery against
Will Nutter.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. Well, you hold it. It won’t hurt anybody if it goes
off; but I’m inclined to think it’ll kick like thunder.
_Enter JOHN, L._
_John._ Ah, Douglas! I’ve been up to see you. I’m all anxiety to hear
from the Carom stock. Has it gone up?
_Douglas._ No; but the mine has.
_John._ Gracious Heaven! Then I am ruined! (_Sinks into chair L. of
table, and buries his face in his hands._)
_Douglas._ Yes, old man, you’ve nothing left but your house and shop; and
they must go to repay me.
_John._ What! You will not close on me?
_Douglas._ I must. I want the money.
_John._ Why, you told me you would wait; that when you married Mary you
would give it up. Won’t you wait?
_Douglas._ No; that would be too long.
_Mary._ I shall never marry him, father.
_John._ But you must--you shall. I’ll have no disobedience.
_Hannah._ Father, father, Mary is a good girl. Don’t speak of
disobedience.
_John._ She shall marry Henry Douglas.
_Douglas._ Never, John Nutter! I would not marry your daughter were she
at my feet entreating me to take her to my arms. (_Folds his arms._)
She’s not my style.
_John._ What, you miserable whelp! Do you know where you are--who you are
speaking to? You have entreated me to give her to you; you have begged
me to exert my power, and drive her to your arms; and, now that you have
me in your power, you dare to insult her! Villain, I’ll strangle you!
(_Rushes at DOUGLAS._)
_Jarius._ (_Rushing between._) Hold on. Keep cool, Mr. Nutter.
_Douglas._ I want nothing that belongs to you, old man, but my money;
that I will have. Pay me one thousand dollars, or I take immediate
possession of your property.
_John._ O, I am justly served! I listened to your voice, embarked in
speculation, turned against my daughter’s love, and now, in my old age,
must wander forth without a home.
_Douglas._ It’s rather hard. Keep the home, and pay the money. It’s easy
enough.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. Pay the money, and let the sneak go.
_John._ How can I? I haven’t a cent in the world.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. Where’s the little brown jug?
_Mary._ Alas, that is empty!
_Jarius._ Sho! Let’s have a look at it.
_John._ ’Tis useless. I haven’t put a copper into it for a year.
Everything has gone to that villain.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. Let’s see the jug for old acquaintance’ sake. (_Exit,
MARY, L._) It’s a bad thing to give up putting away a little somethin’
for a rainy day, ain’t it, Mrs. Nutter?
_Hannah._ Yes. John always did save until that Henry Douglas showed him
how to spend.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. It’s a great pity. I could tell you a story about a
boy I knowed.
_Hannah._ A boy! What boy?
_Jarius._ Why, how bright you are looking, Mrs. Nutter! Guess you feel
better.
_Douglas._ Well, is my money coming?
_Jarius._ Hold on. Don’t git into a sweat. I want to tell yer about that
air boy. Yer see, about a year ago I came across a poor chap, who’d run
down hill awful fast; he’d got into temptation, and tripped. A good deal
like your boy, Mrs. Nutter.
_Hannah._ My Will? He was a good boy. He’s a man to-day.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. Wal, this here chap wanted work. He was as penitent
as could be; so I set him to work among agricultural implements, as a
sort of salesman, paid him fair wages, and a smarter chap you never see.
I noticed he never spent much, and so one day I asked him what he did
with his savings. He didn’t like to tell at first; but arter a while he
told me that his daddy had a kind of saving-up place--a sugar-bowl, or a
coffee-pot, or a jug, somewhere, and he used to walk off every Saturday
night ten miles, creep into the house, and put it away in the old
ju--savings bank. Wal, I had a reapin’ machine that I had a patent onto,
that I thought a heap on; but, somehow, it wouldn’t work. When they got
the horses in, and a boy on top of it, and started the thing off, for a
little while ’twould go first rate; when, all at once, there’d be a h’ist
and spill, and machine, and horse, and boy would all be mixed up in a
heap. It was a bust. Wal, that air boy would look, and look, and look at
that machine, and one day he says to me, “I’ve found what’s the matter.”
And I’ll be hanged if he hadn’t. I was so tickled that I jest drew my
check for a thousand dollars, and made him a present of it; and I’ll be
bound that air check is in the old gentleman’s little brown jug.
_Mary._ (_Outside._) O, father! mother! (_Runs in, L., with jug, followed
by SALLY._) The jug! the jug! It’s heaped full of bank notes. (_Emptying
it upon table._)
_Sally._ Heaps and heaps!
_John._ Bank notes, and--What’s this? (_Takes up check._) A check! “Pay
to William Nutter, or order, one thousand dollars.” Signed, “Jarius
Jordan.” Jordan, is this your work?
_Jarius._ Look at the back.
_John._ (_Reads._) “William Nutter.” My son!
_Hannah._ Our Will! My boy! O, Jarius Jordan! what does this mean?
_Jarius._ It means glory! Halleluyah! Fourth of July! Kingdom come! It’s
a grand emancipation jubilee. The boy I’ve been telling you about is
the same boy that villain, Henry Douglas, led into temptation, whom he
charged with forgery, whom I took in hand, set straight, and who to-day
is a man indeed--your son Will, Mrs. Nutter.
_Hannah._ I know it, I know it. He’s saved us, he’s saved us! O, where is
he? Where is my boy?
_Enter WILL, C._
_Will._ Here, mother, here’s your own boy again.
_Hannah._ (_Screams._) O, Will! Will! I knew you’d come! I knew you’d
come! (_Runs into his arms._)
_John._ Will, welcome home! (_Takes his hand._) Everything is forgotten
and forgiven. I’m proud to welcome my son home again.
_Will._ Home, father, spite of the craft of that man whom I once called
friend. It is ours still.--Mary, sister!
_Mary._ Dear, dear Will, a thousand times welcome! (_Clasps his hand._)
_Will._ Ah, sister, I have missed you all. Thank Heaven, I am once more
able to meet you without a blush of shame.
_Ned._ Here’s your old chum, Will; can you spare a hand for him?
_Will._ (_Giving both hands to NED. MARY leads her mother to lounge._)
Ah, Ned, you have much to forgive. That cruel blow with the little brown
jug!
_Ned._ Don’t speak of it. You don’t know how much good it did me. Does
he, Mary?
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. If it did you any good, give the credit where it
belongs--to Henry Douglas, for he struck the blow.
_Douglas._ ’Tis false.
_Jarius._ It’s the truth, for I saw the act. I didn’t tell on it, for I
wanted a p’int agin Douglas. To-morrow I shall make a charge of assault
with intent to kill. It’s hung two years, but I guess it’s strong enough
to do some execution.
_Douglas._ You have no witnesses. Your charge will fall to the ground,
Mr. Jarius Jordan. You have outwitted me, but you must confess I have
plotted safely. There’s not a point you’ve found to convict me of crime.
You are rather keen. Try it. If I have failed in my attempt to ruin
the family of the renowned shoemaker, John Nutter, I have still the
satisfaction of retiring from the field with a very handsome profit in
the shape of your check for a thousand dollars, which I shall expect
to receive before night. Good day, all. Nutter, I leave you to join
the hands of your daughter and her accomplished lover. Give them your
blessing, and send me a card. (_At door._) Ha, ha, farewell to Cobbler’s
Paradise! (_Exit, C._)
_Sally._ (_Runs up to door._) Good riddance to bad rubbish.
_Jarius._ Sally, Sally, don’t do that. (_Runs after her, and brings her
down C._)
_Sally._ Jarius Jerden, if there’s a Yankee angel, you’re the critter.
_Jarius._ Sally, I want to ask you--that is--I’m going to--Consarn it!
Sally, will you marry me? Phew! it’s out at last!
_Sally._ Of course I will. I would five years ago, if you’d only had the
spunk to ask me.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. I’ve been a donkey. But them words did stick in my
wizzen awful.
_Hannah._ (_Rising._) Law sakes, Mary, don’t try to keep me on this sofa.
I ain’t a bit sick. I’m just as well as you are; and if I don’t dance at
your weddin’, it’ll be because I hain’t got a partner.
_Will._ You shall not want for partners, mother. I claim the privilege of
opening the ball with you.
_Hannah._ And you shall, Will. Law, my! how handsome you have grown!
_John._ Hasn’t he, mother! This is a proud day for us.
_Hannah._ Yes, indeed; for Will’s a man to-day.
_Will._ And, if I am, I owe it all to one who, in the dark hour, took me
by the hand and led me into the light. Ah, many a poor boy who has been
led into temptation might be saved from a miserable life if a friendly
hand were stretched forth, and a warning word kindly given, as they were
to me by Jarius Jordan--Heaven bless him!
_Hannah._ Ay, Heaven bless you, Jarius. You have made a mother’s heart
happy in the gift of her boy, reclaimed from sin. May all you seek be
yours.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so--which is Sally. I’ve got her. As there’s likely to be
a matrimonial convention in this house pretty soon, I appint myself a
delegate.
_Sally._ Second the motion.
_John._ Ned, I withdraw all objections to your proposal regarding Mary.
_Ned._ Thank you, Mr. Nutter.--Mary, are you going to make me happy?
_Mary._ I’m going to try, Ned. And where there’s a will there’s a way,
you know.
_Will._ Mother, you don’t know how happy I feel to be with you again, to
see the old home, everything about the room so familiar; even the little
brown jug has a familiar look. It was my first temptation.
_Jarius._ Yes, boy, it was a family temptation. I knowed it would work
trouble. Ah, if the liquid poison that slays was never allowed to show
itself in the home, there would be fewer desolate hearthstones, fewer
blighted lives.
_John._ You’re right, Jarius. When that boy fell, it opened my eyes, and
not a drop of liquor shall ever enter my doors.
_Jarius._ Jes’ so. Stick to it, John Nutter. It was a bad speck. It
turned your boy adrift; but, thanks to a mother’s love, he fought and
conquered.
_Will._ (_Comes up and takes JARIUS’S hand._) Thanks to you, thanks to
you!
_Jarius._ Wal, I dunno--
_Hannah._ (_Comes and takes JARIUS’S other hand._) Jes’ so, Jarius, jes’
so.
TABLEAU.
_JARIUS, C. WILL clasping his right hand, MRS. NUTTER his left.
JOHN NUTTER and SALLY, R. NED and MARY, L., arm-in-arm._
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WE’RE ALL TEETOTALERS. 4 male, 2 female characters. 15
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A SEA OF TROUBLES. 8 char. 15
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A CLOSE SHAVE. 6 char. 15
THE GREAT ELIXIR. 9 char. 15
THE MAN WITH THE DEMIJOHN. 4 char. 15
HUMORS OF THE STRIKE. 8 char. 15
NEW BROOMS SWEEP CLEAN. 6 char. 15
MY UNCLE THE CAPTAIN. 6 char. 15
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=Using the Weed.= 7 char. 15
=A Love of a Bonnet.= 5 char. 15
=A Precious Pickle.= 6 char. 15
THE GREATEST PLAGUE IN LIFE. 8 char. 15
NO CURE, NO PAY. 7 char. 15
THE GRECIAN BEND. 7 char. 15
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THE WAR OF THE ROSES. 8 female characters. 15
THE SCULPTOR’S TRIUMPH. 1 male, 4 female characters. 15
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TOO LATE FOR THE TRAIN. 2 male characters. 15
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1 female character. 25
BONBONS; OR, THE PAINT-KING. 3 male, 1 female character. 25
THE PEDLER OF VERY NICE. 7 male characters. 15
AN ORIGINAL IDEA. 1 male, 1 female character. 15
CAPULETTA; OR, ROMEO AND JULIET RESTORED. 3 male, 1 female
character. 15
TEMPERANCE PIECES.
THE LAST LOAF. 5 male, 3 female characters. 15
THE TEMPTER. 3 male, 1 female character. 15
WE’RE ALL TEETOTALERS. 4 male, 2 female characters. 15
A DROP TOO MUCH. 4 male, 2 female characters. 15
A LITTLE MORE CIDER. 5 male, 3 female characters. 15
THE MAN WITH THE DEMIJOHN. 4 characters. 15
Transcriber’s Note