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Title: The Drone
A Play in Three Acts

Author: Rutherford Mayne

Release Date: December 23, 2006 [eBook #20176]

Language: English

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THE DRONE

A Play in Three Acts

by

RUTHERFORD MAYNE

Luce & Co.
Boston
Copyright, 1912. Samuel Waddell.

TO

SEVEEN

CHARACTERS

JOHN MURRAY, _A farmer._
DANIEL MURRAY, _His brother._
MARY MURRAY, _John's daughter._
ANDREW MCMINN, _A farmer._
SARAH MCMINN, _His sister._
DONAL MACKENZIE, _A Scotch engineer._
SAM BROWN, _A labourer in John Murray's employment._
KATE, _A servant girl in John Murray's employment._
ALICK MCCREADY, _A young farmer._

_The action takes place throughout in the kitchen of John Murray in
the County of Down._

TIME ... _The present day._

The Drone

_A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS_

ACT I.

SCENE: _The farm kitchen of John Murray. It is large and spacious,
with a wide open fire-place to the right. At the back is one door
leading to the parlour and other rooms in the house, also a large
window overlooking the yard outside. To the left of this window is the
door leading into the yard, and near the door an old-fashioned
grandfather's clock. Opposite to the fire-place on the left side is
another door leading into Daniel Murray's workshop, and beside this
door is a large dresser with crockery, &c. At the back beneath the
window is a table near which_ KATE, _the servant, a slatternly dressed
girl of some thirty years of age or more, is seated. She is carefully
examining some cakes of soda bread, and has a bucket beside her into
which she throws the rejected pieces._

KATE. That one's stale. It would break your teeth to eat it. (_She
throws the cake into the bucket._) And the mice have nibbled that one.
And there's another as bad. (_She throws both pieces into the
bucket._)

(BROWN, _the servant man, opens the door from yard and e