4/3/2024 0 Comments 10 minute play script![]() ![]() MARY: Harold’s young college-boy assurance, you know, it got under his skin. MARY: Well, those days trouble Silas like a dream. WARREN: You never would have known it the way they fought all through July in the blazing sun, Silas up on the cart to build the load, and Harold alongside to pitch it on. MARY: He says the two of them will make a fine team for worksays they’ll lay this farm smooth! The way he mixed that in with other things … he seemed so confused. ![]() ![]() WARREN: I guess Silas is running the place now. MARY: Silas says you’ll have to have him back. MARY: He’s finished school and now he’s teaching in some college somewhere. He ran on and on about Harold Wilsonyou remember Harold? The boy you had haying about four years ago? I stopped to look two or three times to see if he was talking in his sleep. MARY: Warren, I wish you could have heard the way he jumbled everything. MARY: He added, if you really care to know, he meant to clear the upper pasture. WARREN: I just thought maybe he’d come up with something new this time. What would you have him say? Surely you wouldn’t grudge the poor old man some humble way to save his self-respect. WARREN: Did he or didn’t he? I just want to know. He said he’d come to ditch the meadow for medidn’t he? WARREN: There’s something you’re not telling me. I tried to make him talk about his travels, but nothing would dohe just kept nodding off. I practically dragged him to the house, gave him tea and tried to make him smoke. I wasn’t looking for him, and he’s changed. Don’t smile like thatI didn’t recognize him. MARY: When I came up from Rowe’s I found him here, huddled against the barn-door. But you can bet when he starts off like that it’s just someone trying to coax him off with a little pocket-change. WARREN: I wouldn’t mind his bettering himself if that’s what it was. MARY: I don’t think he expects that this time. But I can’t afford to pay any fixed wages. Enough at least to buy tobacco, so he won’t have to beg and be beholden. MARY: He thinks he ought to earn a little pay. And when I need him most, off he goes every time! WARREN: I can’t keep … I mean, what good is he? At his age WARREN: If he left then, I said, that ended it. WARREN: When was I ever anything but kind to him? ![]()
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