Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van: WinkleBurke, Charles
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Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van: Winkle
Burke, Charles
American drama
Odds bodikins and pins! who have we here! an imposter! but you shall pay
for it; this is a pedlar woman, indeed, with such lanky shanks. [_She
rushes up to door and, locks it—then, with a broom pursues him round; he
flings bonnet in her face._
KNICKERBOCKER.
Needs must, when the devil drives—so here goes.
_He jumps through the window [which is dashed to pieces]_(_108_)_—and
disappears._—DAME _rushes up, with broom, towards window._—ALICE _laughs._
DAME.
What! laugh at his misconduct, hussey. One’s just as bad as the other.
All born to plague me. Get you to bed—to bed, I say. [DAME _drives_
ALICE _off, and follows._
*Footnotes*
47 “_speaking off, to the child,_” in K.
48 Not in K.
49 Not in K.
50 Not in K. Instead, “he is so handsome, his figure is so elegant.”
51 Not in K.
52 Not in K.
53 “mein” in K.
54 “Ve’ll” in K.
55 “bate” in K.
56 “broken” in K. Also add “by your knocks.”
57 Not in K.
58 “Tonner” in K.
59 “tink” in K.
60 “finish” in K.
61 “crockery” in K.
62 Not in K.
63 Not in K.
64 “der tyfil’s” in K.
65 “brivate” in K.
66 “goot-hell” in K.
67 “brosber” in K.
68 “tink” in K.
69 “entering” inserted, in K.
70 “I vork” in K.
71 “bit-and-bat” in K.
72 “goot” in K.
73 “bersbiration” in K.
74 Not in K.
75 “vild” and “tog” in K.
76 Not in K.
77 Not in K.
78 Not in K.
79 Not in K.
80 “bardon” in K.
81 Not in K.
82 Not in K.
83 “uncommon” in K.
84 “him” in K.
85 “Mynheer” in K.
86 “boot” and “baber” in K.
87 “freund” in K.
88 In K. “S—ss cat! be quiet wid you!”.
89 “Stob” and “vould” in K.
90 “der tyfil” in K.
91 In K. “S—s cat! you be quiet, or I will skin you as my vife skins
me.”
92 K. adds, “I will take care to get him so completely in my power that
he shall not dare, however he might desire it, to avail himself of
the power which that addition to the contract will give him.”
93 In K., the line reads. “S—s cat! I vill cut off your tail.”
94 “Schneider” in K.
95 “dat ist” in K; also “Mynheer.”
96 “baber” in K.
97 “bocket” in K.
98 “Mynheer” in K.
99 Not in K.
100 “bar-bar-tick-bartickler” in K.
101 K. has also:
ALICE. She wont believe it.
RIP. Tell her—I’ll be stewed fun it’s a fact.
102 Not in K.
103 In K, only “But, never mind.”
104 Not in K.
105 Not in K.
106 Not in K.
107 Not in K.
108 Not in K.
SCENE IV.
_Half dark.—A front wood.—The report of a gun is heard; shortly after_,
RIP _enters, with his fowling piece._
RIP.
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