The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-08-25
The Majesty of the Law


Scene I. Morning. The Forest moonshine still.
Enter Moonshiner sous.
Moonshner: ! wonder why my friend nd coworker
Should linger thus when Phoebus glads the morn?
For we were wont to greet the morning star
Together cup in hand,-bu here he
Good morrow friend I greet thy tardy steps
With cheerful MEN, but deep within my soul
] feel the dim suggestion of fear
Enter Bootegger
Booegger Well mayst thou fear for at the middle
OF sable night a messenger arrived
Post haste and whispered in the dark
Such tidings as it liked me not to hear.
For would that there those in pow'r
And holding office at this present time,
Who wish as i'll; and shortly will appear
Armd authority naked steel
To confscate whisky and STILL
Moonshner: do perceive that thou speaking soOth,
But who these misguided bold bad men?
Booegger: Sheriff and Judge and Deputies.
Scene H. n Judge, Sheriff, Deputies
at breakfast
Judge: tell thee, thrser than thou.
Full twenty days have dragged their weary lengths
Since aught Of comfort hath absturged my throat,
And jot title of my thirst
Will abae but ] will with thee,
And o and IN, until find drink.
Sheriff: Thou In thy mad desire to steal
My lawful perqusites thou dos forget
quarts I stole and shared with thee
A week Thus doth ngratitude
Corrupt judicial natu and destroy
Harmonious accord and equity.
Judge: Thou lest in thy throat The quarts
Thou owedst and but took what mine
Sheriff: A pox thy words My parched throat
Mehnks could swallow such a food pours
Across Niagaras rocks water booze
First Deputy: Peace Judge silly
Can lead to naugh but pain and drier throats
Second Deputy Thou speakest well. 1t doth appear
That keepers of a pair Of babes.
Sheriff: varlets. forward march And the
Hath touched the zenith on his westward way
Well wet whistles I devoutly
moonshne still being dismantled, Moonshner
working franticaly, Bootegger assisting.
Enter Moonshner's Daughter.
Daughter: and hide the worm! The verdant hills
Re-echo to the tramp of armed
And the joyful birds have hushed
Their morning and bark with open throat
To these invaders of their sylvan
Moonshner What their advance and in what force'
Daughter: They're coming the wind, but do fear
That they will circle and then their
OF smell, which hath the keenness of hounds
Will lead them straightway the wind to
Their numbers not great, but what they lack
In numbers they make in thirst and zeal
Moonshiner All, is me! Ev'n speak they come!
Enter from three sides Judge, Sheriff, and Deputies
Sheriff Ho! Stand upon the peril of your lives!
Bind ye them all, and search the woods around
That guilty drop may 'scape eyes,
(whspering) But let presume to find the
Judge Now let all unite search among
The rocks and trees for what they may conceal
They scatter and search leaving the prisoners
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Scene l. Same, prisoners o stage, bound.
Judge with jug side stage other
with large gourd. Sheriff drinks
Judge CDrinking) o, potent dstilaton of the corn,
In all the world there's naught refocilates
And brghtens up the legal mind thou
/ call to mind the days Of olden time
When dispensed their justice twix their drinks,
And thinking thus, persuaded WELL
That after all the old days the best.
Now do feel better rise
And vanquish that which made and small
And could take them to my heart, who break
The senseless laws of prim society.
But | weep when that l think upon
My father dead and before my time,
And all their ancestors back to the food
For they dead o. dead a million times
In that they knew what moonshine is! (Weeps).
Sheriff o. learned Judge had thy gift Of speech
And flow of words, I'd stop weep,
But would spend loquacious hours N praise
OF these good alchemists, who in view,
Take all the world and into gold!