The speaker's ideal entertainments

by George M. Vickers

Are only a dream[1209] of the night that is past.

—J. T. Trowbridge.

• [1151] Requires a table and chair.

[Gestures.]

• [1152] Wave hand.
• [1153] P. H. O.
• [1154] Sp. feet.
• [1155] Nod.
• [1156] Ind. H. F.
• [1157] Walk up and down.
• [1158] Sp.
• [1159] H. F.
• [1160] B. H. O. conversational.
• [1161] H. O.
• [1162] Imitate.
• [1163] Left H. L.
• [1164] Imitate.
• [1165] B. H. O.
• [1166] H. L.
• [1167] L. H. O.
• [1168] H. F.
• [1169] D. F.
• [1170] Hand carried across body and then out to.
• [1171] H. O.
• [1172] H. O.
• [1173] H. F.
• [1174] Left H. O.
• [1175] H. O.
• [1176] Sit.
• [1177] Left elbow on table, hand to head.
• [1178] H. O.
• [1179] P. H. O.
• [1180] Rise.
• [1181] To head.
• [1182] Sit.
• [1183] H. O.
• [1184] H. F.
• [1185] H. O.
• [1186] Left H. F.
• [1187] H. O. Sp.
• [1188] Toss head.
• [1189] Head in hand.
• [1190] H. O.
• [1191] D. O.
• [1192] To left.
• [1193] To right.
• [1194] Rise.
• [1195] V. H. F.
• [1196] H. O.
• [1197] B. H. O.
• [1198] P. D. O.
• [1199] H. L.
• [1200] Look around cell, B. H. O.
• [1201] Sit.
• [1202] B. H. O.
• [1203] Raise P.
• [1204] P. H. F.
• [1205] P. Sw. to F.
• [1206] H. F.
• [1207] Thumbs in armholes of vest, and lean back in chair.
• [1208] Head on hand.
• [1209] V. Sp.

Meg Merrilies.

ADAPTED BY FRANCES E. PEIRCE.

Argument.—Henry Bertram is stolen by the gypsies when a child; he is abandoned by them, serves in the army, and finally wanders back to his native place. The gypsies discover

him, and, to extort money from the man who holds illegal possession of young Bertram’s estates, conspire to carry him off by force or to murder him. From this dilemma old Meg Merrilies delivers him at the peril of her life. Shot by her own people, she dies heroically proclaiming his heirship to the estates of Ellangowan.

Act II.