(Tom's initial soliloquy is cut from this version; it opens with him walking alone in an alley, sitting on a rampart to read the newspaper and having his sister's and mother's voices conjure up the first domestic scene.)
（湯姆的獨白在這個初始版本被刪去，開場改成他獨自走在一條小巷，坐在城牆上讀報紙，媽媽和姊姊的聲音出現在第一幕。