Giles Corey, Yeoman - A Play by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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one kiss for Aunt Corey, here is another kiss for Aunt Corey, here
is another, and another, and another. Here is one kiss for Uncle Corey, and here is another kiss for Uncle Corey, and here is another, and another, and another. There, Nancy! will not this do away with the pin pricks, and they be let out of jail? _Nancy._ I know not. My old head bobs like a pumpkin in a pond. I would master and mistress were home. These be troublous times for an old woman. I would I could stir the stopple in the cider-barrel. Look again, and see if mistress be not coming up the road. _Phoebe._ It is of no use. I have looked for a whole week, and she has not come in sight. I want my Aunt Corey! Nancy, have I not done away with the pin pricks? Tell me, will she be not let out of jail? Oh, there's Paul coming past the window! He's got home! Olive! Olive! _Enter_ Paul Bayley. Phoebe _runs to him._ _Phoebe._ Oh, Paul, they've put Aunt Corey and Uncle Corey in Salem jail while you were gone! Can't you get them out, Paul, can't you? _Paul._ Where is Olive? _Phoebe._ She is in her chamber. She stays there all the time at prayer. Olive! Olive! Paul is come. [_Calls at the foot of chamber stairs._ _Paul._ Olive! |
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