[Illustration: ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE. THE AMATEUR DRAMA. SEEING THE ELEPHANT BOSTON: GEO. M. BAKER & CO., 149 Washington Street. KILBURN & MALLORY, Sr.] Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873 by GEORGE M. BAKER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. SEEING THE ELEPHANT. BY THE AUTHOR OF “Sylvia’s Soldier;” “Once on a Time;” “Down by the Sea;” “Bread on the Waters;” “The Last Loaf;” “Stand by the Flag;” “The Tempter;” “A Drop Too Much;” “We’re All Teetotallers;” “A Little More Cider;” “Thirty Minutes for Refreshments;” “Wanted, a Male Cook;” “A Sea of Troubles;” “Freedom of the Press;” “A Close Shave;” “The Great Elixir;” “The Man with the Demijohn;” “New Brooms Sweep Clean;” “Humors of the Strike;” “My Uncle the Captain;” “The Greatest Plague in Life;” “No Cure, No Pay;” “The Grecian Bend;” “The War of the Roses;” “Lightheart’s Pilgrimage;” “The Sculptor’s Triumph;” “Too Late for the Train;” “Snow-Bound;” “The Peddler of Very Nice;” “Bonbons;” “Capuletta;” “An Original Idea;” &c. BOSTON: GEO. M. BAKER & CO. 149 WASHINGTON STREET. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, BY GEORGE M. BAKER, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, 19 Spring Lane. SEEING THE ELEPHANT CHARACTERS. SILAS SOMERBY, a Farmer, occasionally addicted to the bottle. HARRY HOLDEN, his right-hand Man. BIAS BLACK, a Teamster. PAT MURPHY, a Laborer. JOHNNY SOMERBY, Silas’s Son. RACHEL SOMERBY, his Wife. SALLY SOMERBY, his Daughter. COSTUMES. SILAS, dark pants, short, thick boots, yellow vest, a towel pinned about his neck, gray wig, face lathered. HARRY, gray pants, blue shirt, black neckkerchief, dark coat. BIAS, thick boots, blue frock, woolly wig, black face, long whip. PAT MURPHY, in shirt sleeves, blue overalls, cap, wig. JOHNNY, close-cut hair, pants of his father’s, rolled up at bottom, drawn up very high with suspenders, thin coat, short and open, very broad brimmed straw hat. RACHEL and SALLY, neat calico dresses. SCENE.--_Room in SOMERBY’S House. Old-fashioned sofa, R.; table, C., laid for breakfast. HARRY seated R. of table, eating; rocking-chair, R. C. SALLY seated, L., shelling peas or paring apples. Entrances, R., L., and C._ _Sally._ (_Singing._) “Roll on, silver moon, Guide the traveller his way, While the nightingale’s song is in tune; For I never, never more With my true love shall stray By the sweet, silver light of the moon.”