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Title: Three Plays
Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Release Date: November 29, 2005 [eBook #17187]

Language: English

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THREE PLAYS

Lawing and Jawing
Forty Yards
Woofing

by

Zora Neale Hurston

LAWING AND JAWING

by Zora *[Handwritten: (Neale)] Hurston

TIME: Present

PLACE: Way cross Georgia

SCENE: Judge Dunfumy's Court.

PERSONS: Judge Dunfumy, Officer Simpson and another, Jemima
Flapcakes, Cliff Mullins, John Barnes, two lawyers,
a clerk, a pretty girl and her escort.

SETTING: Usual court-room arrangement, except that there is a
large red arrow pointing off-stage left, marked
"To Jail."

ACTION: At r