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Title: De Turkey and De Law
A Comedy in Three Acts

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Release Date: July 25, 2007 [EBook #22146]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Transcriber's Notes: This play transcribed from an original
typewritten manuscript at the Library of Congress in the Zora Neale
Hurston collection. There are pencilled notations probably by Ms.
Hurston herself. These pencilled edits have been transcribed as [Note:
(text)] Any other questionable transcription is similarly noted.
Nothing in the dialect has been changed. Occasional obvious typos in
the stage directions have been corrected. There are inconsistencies in
both bracketing and punctuation, which have been left as in the
original manuscript. There seems to be an irregularity in the spelling
of "Simms"; "Sims" seems randomly substituted.]

DE TURKEY AND DE LAW

A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS

by

ZORA HURSTON

CAST

Jim Weston A young man and the town bully (A Methodist)

Dave Carter The town's best hunter and fisherman (Baptist)

Joe Clarke The Mayor, Postmaster, storekeeper

Daisy Blunt The town vamp

Lum Boger The Marshall

Walter Thomas A villager (Methodist)

Lige Moseley A villager (Methodist)

Joe Lindsay A villager (Baptist)

Della Lewis A villager (Baptist)

Tod Hambo A villager (Baptist)

Lucy Taylor A villager (Methodist)

Rev. Singletary (Baptist)

Rev. Simms (Methodist)

Villagers, children, dogs.

ACT I

SETTING: A Negro village in Florida in our own time. All action from
viewpoint of an actor facing audience.

PLACE: Joe Clarke's store porch in the village. A frame building with
a false front. A low porch with two steps u