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    The First Distiller
    The First Distiller
    The First Distiller
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    The First Distiller

    By Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude and Leo Tolstoy

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The First Distiller - Aylmer Maude

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      Title: The First Distiller

      Author: Leo Tolstoy

      Translator: Louise Maude

      Aylmer Maude

      Release Date: September 20, 2008 [EBook #26662]

      Language: English

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      THE FIRST DISTILLER

      A COMEDY IN SIX ACTS

      (1886)

      CHARACTERS

      A PEASANT.

      A NEIGHBOUR.

      FOUR VILLAGE ELDERS.

      OLD WOMEN, WOMEN, GIRLS AND LADS.

      THE CHIEF OF THE DEVILS.

      HIS SECRETARY.

      A DANDY IMP.

      THE OFFICIALS' IMP.

      THE PEASANTS' IMP.

      SENTINELS, DOORKEEPERS AND IMPS.

      THE FIRST DISTILLER

      A COMEDY

      ACT I

      PEASANT [ploughing. Looks up] It's noon. Time to unharness. Gee up, get along! Fagged out? Poor old beast! One more turn and back again, that will be the last furrow, and then dinner. It was a good idea to bring that chunk of bread with me. I'll not go home, but sit down by the well and have a bite and a rest, and Peggy can graze awhile. Then, with God's help, to work again, and the ploughing will be done in good time.

      Enter Imp; hides behind a bush.

      IMP. See what a good fellow he is! Keeps calling on God. Wait a bit, friend,—you'll be calling on the Devil before long! I'll just take away his chunk. He'll miss it before long, and will begin to hunt for it. He'll be hungry, and then he'll swear and call on the Devil.

      Takes the chunk of bread and sits down behind the bush watching to see what the Peasant will do.

      PEASANT [unharnesses the horse] With God's blessing! [Lets the horse loose, and goes towards the place where his coat is lying] I'm awfully hungry. The wife cut a big chunk, but see if I don't eat it all. [Coming up to the coat] Gone!

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