Napoleon Crossing the Rockies MacKaye, Percy Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag Percy MacKaye, 1875 – 1956 Napoleon Crossing the Rockies [in, Kentucky Mountain Fantasies: Three Short Plays For an Appalachian Theatre by Percy MacKaye ...] New York London Toronto Longmans, Green and Co. xiv, 173 p. THE MAN THE OTHER MAN STEPTOE THE FIGURE LARK TILDY THE FIRST MAN HODGE One-act Prose data extraction from source 1928 First performed: May 21, 1924

To my son

KEITH MACKAYE

IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR COMRADESHIP

IN THE MOUNTAINS

PERSONS LARK FIDDLER TILDY, his wife HODGE, a kind of business man STEPTOE, another kind

SCENE

Lark's Cabin, in the Kentucky mountains, at the present time

Interior of a log cabin in the mountains. Twilight .

Through the open door ( at back, right ) a glimpse of gray palings and dim forest beyond .

From a dark corner of the cabin ( left ) rises a stifled moaning .

Then all is very still again .

After a little, voices are heard outside, a wooden gate creaks, and the dim shape of a man appears in the doorway .

He knocks. No answer .

He knocks again, peering in .

 THE MAN

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The moaning recurs, very faintly. The man calls, louder

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Again no answer .

In the dorway appears another man, who speaks in disgruntled tones

 THE OTHER MAN

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THE FIRST MAN

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He hands him a cloth bag STEPTOE Jingling it heavily

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STEPTOE Handing back the bag

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He takes from his pocket two little parcels, wrapped in pink and blue paper HODGE

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STEPTOE Putting the parcels away again

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STEPTOE Ruminatingly, takes up a dark object from a shelf, and feels it over

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The dark object emits a faint twang HODGE

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In the middle of his song, old LARK himself looms in the doorway, a hatless, dishevelled, shambling, mountainy figure, with a cow-bell, swung by a string round his neck, jangling under his unshorn chin. In one hand he swings a big tin pail .

Standing a moment, he peers into the cabin and calls:

 LARK

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Setting his pail on a table, he holds both fists over it, milking the air with his fingers as he looks out of doors and calls again:

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TILDY The dim object on the floor answers him feebly

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LARK His head shaking with solemnity

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Solemnly unnoosing his neck from the dangling cowbell , LARK squats down beside TILDY, and tinkles the bell toward her, with deep earnestness LARK

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Tossing aside the bell with a sweeping gesture of disgust, he inverts the tin pail and sits on it TILDY Gasping, starts to reach for the pail

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LARK Gazing at her, reproachfully

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TILDY Pointing at the bed

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With awkward tenderness he lifts her to her feet TILDY Groaning

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LARK Assisting her

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TILDY Painfully limping a step or two

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Assisting her very slowly toward the hickory chair , LARK sings aloud, as she clutches his arm, limping :]

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LARK In surprise

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LARK Responding with alacrity

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He goes to the fireplace, stirs up some coals with fresh sticks, dippers some water into an iron pipkin, and shoves it amid the fire. Then reaching with shaky hands to a shelf, he rummages forth some dried roots. Meanwhile he whistles the tune he has been singing, and talks to TILDY.]

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LARK Putting some roots in the pot

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TILDY Grimly stoical

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LARK Goes to a shelf and takes down the fiddle

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TILDY Feebly

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LARK Unhearing

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TILDY Fidgeting

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LARK Lowering his fiddle, gazes on it, grief-stricken

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TILDY Tartly

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LARK In utter dejection

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A sharp rap sounds on the door-jamb, and a shadowy FIGURE peers in calling THE FIGURE

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LARK Starting up

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TILDY Timorously

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[HODGE enters with STEPTOE.] HODGE

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STEPTOE Coming forward

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TILDY With feeble surprise

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TILDY Leaning forward

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TILDY To LARK]

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LARK Bustling to do so

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HODGE Handing him a match

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LARK Lighting the charred lamp-wick, which smokes duskily

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LARK Shutting the door, and referring to the lamp

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STEPTOE Bending over her, solicitous

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[STEPTOE takes LARK'S place at the fire, and pays assiduous little attentions to TILDY in pantomime . LARK rises from his squatting position LARK

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LARK Bewilderedly, sitting with HODGE at the table

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LARK Murmurs, absently

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LARK Floundering to his feet, calls out excitedly

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HODGE Responding to a meaningful look from STEPTOE]

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HODGE Pursing his mouth

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STEPTOE Calming TILDY]

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LARK Picking up his fiddle

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Glancing at STEPTOE, HODGE taps his own forehead, questioning . STEPTOE laughs furtively HODGE

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LARK Glancing up solemnly

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STEPTOE Pouring from the steaming pot into a cup, replies mischievously

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TILDY Sipping it as he waits on her

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HODGE Grimacing, turns to LARK]

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TILDY With feeble shrillness

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HODGE Lifting his bag from under the table

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Untying the bag, he inverts it, slowly pouring out upon the table, near the lamp-flame, a heap of shining coins .

LARK and TILDY stare for a moment, dumfounded

 TILDY After a pause

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LARK Biting a large coin

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LARK Tasting a small coin

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LARK Taking up his fiddle again, begins slowly

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TILDY Risen half to her feet, supporting herself on her chair-arms, her body trembling, speaks tensely low:

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LARK With a triumphant gesture

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He starts to scoop up the coins on the table, but stops suddenly as STEPTOE strikes a hand heavily on his shoulder, scowling upon him STEPTOE

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He takes from his pocket a sheet of paper TILDY

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TILDY Peering forward, eagerly curious

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TILDY As he reaches her a necklace, strung with many-colored glass

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Overcome, she presses them against her breast LARK Grasping STEPTOE'S hands and wringing them

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TILDY Raptly, holding up the beads

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HODGE Under his breath, looking on

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He gives TILDY a small blue package, which she hands, in dazed dumbness, to LARK.] LARK Unwrapping it, with trembly hands

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LARK Who has seized his fiddle and is feverishly putting in the new strings, glances up with a momentary wave of the hand

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STEPTOE Handing TILDY a tin plate, with the sheet of paper and a fountain-pen

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As STEPTOE sweeps the coins back into the bag , HODGE slumps down into a chair, with a groan HODGE

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STEPTOE With quick dexterity places the paper under LARK'S nose, and hands him the pen, pointing

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With difficulty breaking from his absorption in the fiddle-stringing , LARK peers from the paper to STEPTOE'S face LARK

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With a loud chuckle of mirth, he turns again to his fiddle stringing STEPTOE

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HODGE Flourishes it in admiring meditation

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HODGE Signing the paper, rises and hands it to STEPTOE]

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HODGE Shrugging, with a grunt

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STEPTOE Pocketing the paper, takes up the bag, moves toward the door, and calls to LARK and TILDY]

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He begins to test chords with his bow STEPTOE

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They go out quickly LARK Hastening to the door with his fiddle

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He pauses, listening .

There is a long moment of silence

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He closes the door slowly TILDY

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LARK Thrumming the strings faintly

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Solemnly she puts the necklace over her head, circling it down to lay low on her bosom LARK Thrumming more loud

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LARK Suddenly starting up, shakes his body fiercely, as a stallion, rolled over and risen again, snorts his lips trumpeting a neigh-call

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He strikes a fiery chord

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Standing in a rapture of fierce gladness , LARK clutches his fiddle, and begins to play strains of a wild march tune, while seated near him, in the light of the hearth and the guttering flame of the lamp-wick , TILDY listens, fingering her pieded beads CURTAIN