Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-07
Last of Series
Of Class Plays
Seniors VIII Appear in Three One
Act Plays at Lincoln High School
Next Wednesday Evening.

plays viii be given by the Senior
class At the close of these three
one-act plays, every senior but one
will have taken some part in their
class exercises. The first two
plays are taken from Percy
Mac Kay's Hawthorne Pageant.
The first depicts a trial Of a poor old
woman for witehcraft in the days of
old Salem The opportune arrival
Of French "coureur de bois'," saves
her from the ducking chair, and
gives her a home in the forest with
the gallant young hunter The
second depicts scene between the
"Merrymounters," gay pleasure
seekers and their puritan neighbors
Bess, one of the merrymakers has
been seized by the puritans and put
in the stocks. In revenge, the
Merrymount people seize a puritan
matron and bring her, spinning
wheel and all, to their forest green
home, whore they propose to make
her drink of the wine, partake of the
feast and dance around the may pole
While they are all out preparing the
feast one Of their members, a
young girl, is left alone with her
sick old grandma. She quarrels
with the puritan The old lady
moaning in her sickness arouses her
anxiety and She tries vainly to make
healing posset for her but does not
know how The puritan matron,
overcome by sympathy, shows her
how and then teaches her how to
spin. While the spinning lesson is
going on the rest of the boisterous
crowd comes laughing back, intent
in having fun with the "canting
Puritan" Sarah, the little maiden
whom she is teaching however
brayely defends her puritan friend,
and wins them over to her side.
Just as she has won her case, the
puritans rush in, armed, demanding
back their Puritan mistress, and
threatening death to the Merry
mounters The Puritan matron
reprimandsthem sharply, claims that
she came merely on an errand of
friendship and mercy, and had not
been captured She bids them take
her spinning wheel and chair and go
home with her, thus saving her
erstwhile enemies, The Garrotters,
the third play, hinges about the
supposed theft Of watch MIR.
Roberts is coming home one evening
when a man brushes past him. He
claps his hand to his vest and finds
his watch gone Angered, he rushes
after the fellow, pulls him over back
ward, and snatches his watch Then
he hurries home, disheveled and
wild eyed. to tell his wife. She
becomes very much agitated and in
her excited Imagination keeps
pjcturing the attack more terrible.
She IS expecting guests, and as each
guest arrives tells them more lurid
version of the tale, DESPITE her
husbands protests, until finally he is
depicted as having been attacked by
q whole gang Of terrible wretches"
whom he brayely fights off and
from whom he RECEIVERS his property
In the midst of the exciting story.
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very much disheyelled and excited
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suddenly faint and with his brother
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