By George Aiken
ISBN-10: 1409915727
ISBN-13: 9781409915720
George L. Aiken (1830-1876) used to be a 19th century American playwright and actor who's most sensible recognized for writing the preferred of the various degree diversifications of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Aiken was once a author of dime novels ahead of he became to theatre. He turned an actor within the troupe of his cousin, George C. Howard. In 1852, almost immediately after the ebook of Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Aiken wrote his degree version. His different works comprise a dramatization of Ann S. Stephen’s novel The outdated abode. He retired from the level in 1867.
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PHINEAS: What kind of a darkey? HALEY: A mulatto chap, almost as light-complexioned as a white man. 51 Uncle Tom’s Cabin PHINEAS: Was he a pretty good-looking chap? HALEY: Yes. PHINEAS: Kind of tall? HALEY: Yes. PHINEAS: With brown hair? HALEY: Yes. PHINEAS: And dark eyes? HALEY: Yes. PHINEAS: Pretty well dressed? HALEY: Yes. 52 Uncle Tom’s Cabin PHINEAS: Scar on his right hand? HALEY: Yes, yes. PHINEAS: Well, I ain’t seen him. HALEY: Oh, bother! Come, boys, let’s search the house. [(Exeunt. )] PHINEAS: [(Raises trap.
GEORGE: My country again! Sir, I haven’t any country any more than I have any father. I don’t want anything of your country, except to be left alone — to go peaceably out of it; but if any man tries to stop me, let him take care, for I am desperate. I’ll fight for my liberty, to the last breath I breathe! You say your fathers did it, if it was right for them, it is right for me! WILSON: [(Walking up and down and fanning his face with a large yellow silk handkerchief. )] Blast ‘em all! Haven’t I always said so — the infernal old cusses!
GEORGE: Farewell, Mr. Wilson. WILSON: My best wishes go with you, George. [(Exit. )] PHINEAS: You’re a trump, old Slow-and-Easy. GEORGE: [(Looking off. )] Look! look! 50 Uncle Tom’s Cabin PHINEAS: Consarn their picters, here they come! We can’t get out of the house without their seeing us. We’re teetotally treed! GEORGE: Let us fight our way through them! PHINEAS: No, that won’t do; there are too many of them for a fair fight — we should be chawed up in no time. )] Holloa! here’s a cellar door.
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