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Identifier: historicalplaysf00bird (find matches)
Title: Historical plays for children
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Bird, Grace Electa Starling, Maud, joint author
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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that you will come to visitus often. We will enjoy our sports to-gether, and have contests for the youngmen. Chief. We shall be glad to do so; but it isnow time for us to go back to our wigwams.Thank you for the presents you have givenus. We will always be friendly to you, andhe who breaks the promises in Penn Chartershall be punished. Penn. We are glad to have such good neigh-bors. (To the Quakers.) In honor of thisoccasion, let us name this settlement Phila-delphia, which is a good word taken fromthe Bible, meaning brotherly love. (All go out, nodding assent, and talking together.) DOLLY MADISON SCENE IA Room in the White House CHARACTERS President Madison and his wife, Dolly Dinah Adams, a colored woman, who is a trusted servantDinahs son, George Washington Adams (Negroes speak with only a suggestion of dialect.) (Dolly is winding yarn off Dinahs hands.) Time —1814 Dinah. Is Massa goin away to-day?Dolly. Yes. The business of this dreadfulwar calls him away entirely too often. 247
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248 HISTORICAL PLAYS FOR CHILDREN 249 Dinah (pulling at the skein). Dis yarn is gettin tangled.Dolly. Only a little. Keep your hands quite still, and I will straighten it out. (She disentangles it.) There, now it will wind easily.Dinah. What you goin to do wid dis yarn, Mis Madison?Dolly. Knit a warm muffler for your master. He is so busy he never takes care of his health unless I watch him.Dinah. I have worked for three Presidents ; but Massa Madison surely has the bes wife of dem all.Dolly (laughing). I am afraid you imagine that.Dinah. No indeed. Everybody say so. Hyah comes Massa himself to prove what I say is true. (Enter President Madison, hat in hand.)Dolly. Must you start so soon?President. Yes, the militia is gathering 250 HISTORICAL PLAYS FOR CHILDREN now. I should have gone before; I hope to be back to-morrow or next day.Dolly. Is Washington in any greater danger of attack than it was yesterday ?President. We hope to avert the danger.Dolly. How many British ships are anchor

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  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Bird__Grace_Electa
  • bookauthor:Starling__Maud__joint_author
  • bookpublisher:New_York__The_Macmillan_Company
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:265
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:americana
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