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[Illustration:

                       ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE.


                                  THE
                                AMATEUR
                                DRAMA.

                                SEEING
                             THE ELEPHANT


                                BOSTON:
                         GEO. M. BAKER & CO.,
                        149 Washington Street.


                        KILBURN & MALLORY, Sr.]

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873 by GEORGE
M. BAKER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at
Washington.




  SEEING THE ELEPHANT.


  BY THE AUTHOR OF

  “Sylvia’s Soldier;” “Once on a Time;” “Down by the Sea;” “Bread on the
  Waters;” “The Last Loaf;” “Stand by the Flag;” “The Tempter;” “A
  Drop Too Much;” “We’re All Teetotallers;” “A Little More Cider;”
  “Thirty Minutes for Refreshments;” “Wanted, a Male Cook;” “A
  Sea of Troubles;” “Freedom of the Press;” “A Close Shave;”
  “The Great Elixir;” “The Man with the Demijohn;” “New
  Brooms Sweep Clean;” “Humors of the Strike;” “My
  Uncle the Captain;” “The Greatest Plague in Life;”
  “No Cure, No Pay;” “The Grecian Bend;” “The
  War of the Roses;” “Lightheart’s Pilgrimage;”
  “The Sculptor’s Triumph;” “Too Late for
  the Train;” “Snow-Bound;” “The
  Peddler of Very Nice;” “Bonbons;”
  “Capuletta;” “An Original
  Idea;” &c.


  BOSTON:
  GEO. M. BAKER & CO.
  149 WASHINGTON STREET.




  Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,

  BY GEORGE M. BAKER,

  In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.


  Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
  19 Spring Lane.




SEEING THE ELEPHANT


CHARACTERS.

  SILAS SOMERBY, a Farmer, occasionally addicted to the bottle.
  HARRY HOLDEN, his right-hand Man.
  BIAS BLACK, a Teamster.
  PAT MURPHY, a Laborer.
  JOHNNY SOMERBY, Silas’s Son.
  RACHEL SOMERBY, his Wife.
  SALLY SOMERBY, his Daughter.


COSTUMES.

 SILAS, dark pants, short, thick boots, yellow vest, a towel
 pinned about his neck, gray wig, face lathered.

 HARRY, gray pants, blue shirt, black neckkerchief, dark coat.

 BIAS, thick boots, blue frock, woolly wig, black face, long
 whip.

 PAT MURPHY, in shirt sleeves, blue overalls, cap, wig.

 JOHNNY, close-cut hair, pants of his father’s, rolled up at
 bottom, drawn up very high with suspenders, thin coat, short and open,
 very broad brimmed straw hat.

 RACHEL and SALLY, neat calico dresses.


 SCENE.--_Room in SOMERBY’S House. Old-fashioned sofa, R.; table, C.,
 laid for breakfast. HARRY seated R. of table, eating; rocking-chair,
 R. C. SALLY seated, L., shelling peas or paring apples. Entrances, R.,
 L., and C._

_Sally._ (_Singing._)

      “Roll on, silver moon,
      Guide the traveller his way,
  While the nightingale’s song is in tune;
      For I never, never more
      With my true love shall stray
  By the sweet, silver light of the moon.”

_Harry._ Beautiful, beautiful! “There’s music in _that_ air.” Now take
a fresh roll, and keep me company while I take another of your mother’s
delicious fresh rolls.

_Sally._ Making the sixth you have devoured before my eyes!

_Harry._ Exactly. What a tribute to her cooking! She’s the best bred
woman in the country. Her pies are miracles of skill; her rolls are
rolls of honor; her golden butter is so sweet, it makes me sweet upon
her.

_Sally._ Well, I declare, Harry Holden, that’s poetry!

_Harry._ Is it? Then hereafter call me the poet of the breakfast table.
My lay shall be seconded with a fresh egg.

_Sally._ Another? Land sakes! you think of nothing but eating.

_Harry._ Exactly, when I’m hungry. My hunger once appeased, I think of
this good farm--the broad fields, mowing, h