CRISPUS ATTUCKS You just want a fight. Save it for the tavern tonight. [SAMUEL GRAY enters. He looks 14 or so] SAMUEL GRAY Where’s a stick. Something. Snowballs aren’t going to do it. One of those infernal soldiers wants to take my job when he’s off-duty. They get paid and don’t even belong here. He thinks he can just be a ropemaker without any apprenticeship? I told him, by all means, you can have “Yes, out our crapper!” a job--cleaning And now one of those lobsterbacks hasn’t paid his bill at the barber’s, and they do that all the time! Why are they here in the first place? To make sure we all pay these taxes that go right into English pockets and all of us working as hard as we can. We OURS! left their bloody country!! And now they’re here in [He takes a piece of wood from CRISPUS, maybe something CRISPUS had on the pallet he was using, something that could serve as a weapon and exits with it]. CRISPUS ATTUCKS What is he doing? Those men are armed. JAMES CALDWELL Oh, we’ve thrown rocks at them. And they just throw them back. [Almost immediately—the offstage of increased shouting and SAMUEL GRAY shouting in pain] CRISPUS ATTUCKS Come on. We have to stop this. [CRISPUS exits with JAMES. Sounds of a volley of musket fire] JAMES CALDWELL [from offstage] CRISPUS! [ANOTHER SHOT. SILENCE. THEN A HUGE ROAR OF ANGER] [end of scene]
CRISPUS ATTUCKS You just want a fight. Save it for the tavern tonight. [SAMUEL GRAY enters. He looks 14 or so] SAMUEL GRAY Where’s a stick. Something. Snowballs aren’t going to do it. One of those infernal soldiers wants to take my job when he’s off-duty. They get paid and don’t even belong here. He thinks he can just be a ropemaker without any apprenticeship? I told him, “Yes, by all means, you can have a job--cleaning out our crapper!” And now one of those lobsterbacks hasn’t paid his bill at the barber’s, and they do that all the time! Why are they here in the first place? To make sure we all pay these taxes that go right into English pockets and all of us working as hard as we can. We left their bloody country!! And now they’re here in OURS! [He takes a piece of wood from CRISPUS, maybe something CRISPUS had on the pallet he was using, something that could serve as a weapon and exits with it]. CRISPUS ATTUCKS What is he doing? Those men are armed. JAMES CALDWELL Oh, we’ve thrown rocks at them. And they just throw them back. [Almost immediately—the offstage of increased shouting and SAMUEL GRAY shouting in pain] CRISPUS ATTUCKS Come on. We have to stop this. [CRISPUS exits with JAMES. Sounds of a volley of musket fire] JAMES CALDWELL [from offstage] CRISPUS! [ANOTHER SHOT. SILENCE. THEN A HUGE ROAR OF ANGER] [end of scene]
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