The Growth of Rumors (1798) Stearns, Charles Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag Charles Stearns, 1753 – 1826 The Growth of Rumors. A Dramatic Dialogue, in One Act [in, Dramatic Dialogues for the Use of Schools] Leominster John Prentiss, & Co. 540 p. Catchword Longhead Goodman Breedbate Redface Tellfair Madam Piper Curious Dialogue Drama Prose data extraction from source 1798

Next to the folly and wickedness of framing deliberate falsehoods and propagating them concerning honest people, is the pernicious disposition, which inclines some persons, if they hear any disagreeable report, to magnify and spread it. An ill impression is sometimes made in an hour, which it will require years to efface; and perhaps it can never be effaced — a good man "taketh not up an ill report against his neighbor."

PERSONS. MEN. LONGHEAD — a man who makes the worst of every thing. CATCHWORD — a propagator of idle reports. BREEDBATE — a lover of scandal. REDFACE — a preacher over liquor. CURIOUS — a busy-body. TELL-FAIR — a popular orator. GOODMAN — an honest, cautious citizen. Madam PIPER — an aged woman who hears their Dialogue, and speaks as she is affected by it. — Madam Piper sits and works at a distance thro the whole Dialogue.
SCENE I. — Longhead and Catchword. Long.

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Catch.

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Long.

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Catch.

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Long.

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Catch.

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Long.

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Catch.

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M. Piper.

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Long.

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Catch.

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M. Piper.

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Long.

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Catch.

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M. Piper.

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Long.

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Catch.

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Long.

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Catch.

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Long.

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Catch.

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Long.

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M. Piper.

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Long.

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Exit Longhead. Breedbate enters.
SCENE II. — Breedbate and Catchword. Breed.

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Catch.

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Breed.

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Catch.

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M. Piper.

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Catch.

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M. Piper.

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Catch.

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M. Piper.

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Catch.

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Breed.

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Catch.

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Exit Catchword.
SCENE III. — Breedbate and Redface. Breed.

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Red.

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Breedbate goes out. M. Piper.

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(Breedbate enters gives him a cup of liquor, he drinks, holds it, and talks, and drinks, alternately.) Breed.

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Red.

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(Taking the posture of attention.) M. Piper.

Contains 17 words in 2 sentences using 78 chars .

Red.

Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 31 chars .

Breed.

Contains 24 words in 2 sentences using 120 chars .

Red.

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Breed.

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Red.

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Breed.

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( Redface drinks again. ) M. Piper.

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Red.

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Breed.

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Red.

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Breed.

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M. Piper.

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Red.

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M. Piper.

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Breed.

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Red.

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M. Piper.

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Exit Breedbate.
SCENE V. — Redface and Curious. Red.

Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 35 chars .

Cur.

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Red.

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Cur.

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Red.

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Cur.

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Red.

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Cur.

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Red.

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Drinks off his liquor, sets down the empty glass and goes out.
SCENE VI. — Tellfair and Curious. Cur.

Contains 13 words in 3 sentences using 78 chars .

Tell.

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Cur.

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Tell.

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Cur.

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Tell.

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Cur.

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Tell.

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Cur.

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Tell.

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M. Piper.

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Cur.

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Tel.

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Cur.

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Tell.

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M. Piper.

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Cur.

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M. Pip.

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Cur.

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Tel.

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( Looks sorry. ) M. Piper.

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Cur.

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Tel.

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Cur.

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M. Piper.

Contains 17 words in 2 sentences using 78 chars .

SCENE VII. — Goodman and Tellfair. Good.

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Tel.

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Good.

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Tel.

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Good.

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Tel.

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(warmly.) Good.

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Tel.

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Good.

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Tel.

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Good.

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Tel.

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M. Piper.

Contains 31 words in 3 sentences using 156 chars .

Good.

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M. Piper.

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All leave the stage.