Word: shorne
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Alfred Dawdle, a young gentleman of generous impulses but slender means. L. Anderson Rattles, his servant. L. Honore A. Marlin Spike, a pirate chief. W. H. Rand, Jr. Tom Noddy, landlord of "The Shorn Lamb" and a pirate in good standing. L. H. Morgan Peter Boggs, a rich and ambitious father...
...Furness, Jr.Rooney, porter of "The Shorn Lamb" .B. Weaver McFallon, a sheriff's officer. T. O. Shepard Wheezy, a country justice W.Abbott Captain of soldiers. C. Browne, Jr. Constance, daughter to Boggs, a girl who does not want to marry. B. Carpenter Cherry, daughter to Noddy and companion to Constance. W. B. De Billier First Pirate. S. L. Swarts First Bridesmaid. L. M. Keasbey Choruses of villagers, bridesmaids, pirates and soldiers
...scene of the first act is laid in front of the Shorn Lamb tavern in the seaport town of Crowbay. A group of villagers, constituting the opening chorus, are gathered before the tavern. As the curtain rises they begin to tell of the approaching marriage of Constance to a rich but aged baronet, who has been selected by Boggs, the girl's father, as a suitable husband for his child, though much against her will. Alfred Dawdle, young, handsome and charming, but poor, makes his appearance, accompanied by his facetious but faithful servant, Rattles. Dawdle offers to elope with Constance...
...most tastefully arranged. The pirate captain arrives with Constance, who is presently followed by her companion, Cherry, who has come aboard to be near her mistress. Dawdle and Rattles come aboard in disguise, bent on rescuing Constance. They have been informed of her capture by Rooney, porter of the Shorn Lamb, who has been a witness of most of the scenes of the preceding act. They join the pirates, and after being duly sworn in, concoct a plan of escape. Meanwhile the girls who were to have been Constance's bridesmaids appear on the deck in bathing dresses, having swum...
...does not intend that her academic department shall turn out nothing but ministers, or nothing but lawyers, or nothing but engineers. Men are not put in the stocks to-day, as they were two centuries ago did they absent themselves from church, nor do they have their ears shorn off for professing non-or thodox faith. In the light of these great changes, it is wise that compulsion in religious matters here should have been done away with forever. The CRIMSON'S position in this matter is too well known to require further comment. We think that the Overseers will...