Humorous stories, American; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction; War stories, American
On dirait qu’il va faire chaud.
J’ai chaud.
J’ai extrêmement chaud.
Ah! qu’il fait chaud!
Il fait une chaleur étouffante!
L’air est brûlant.
Je meurs de chaleur.
Il est presque impossible de supporter la chaleur.
Cela vous fait transpirer.
Mettons nous à l’ombre.
Il fait du vent.
Il fait un vent froid.
Il fait un temps très-agréable pour se promener aujourd’hui.
And so on, all the way through. It is very easy to adjust the play to
any desired language. Anybody can do it.]
MEISTERSCHAFT: IN THREE ACTS.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ:
MR. STEPHENSON.
MARGARET STEPHENSON.
GEORGE FRANKLIN.
ANNIE STEPHENSON.
WILLIAM JACKSON.
MRS. BLUMENTHAL, the Wirthin.
GRETCHEN,
Kellnerin.
ACT I.
SCENE I.
Scene of the play, the parlor of a small private dwelling in a
village.
MARGARET. (_Discovered crocheting—has a pamphlet._)
MARGARET. (_Solus._) Dear, dear! it’s dreary enough, to have to study
this impossible German tongue: to be exiled from home and all human
society except a body’s sister in order to do it, is just simply
abscheulich. Here’s only three weeks of the three months gone, and it
seems like three years. I don’t believe I can live through it, and I’m
sure Annie can’t.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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