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Poet Lore
Poet Lore
VOLUME XXI NOVEMBER—DECEMBER, 1910 NUMBER VI

THE CLOUDS[1]

(A play in three acts)

By Jaroslav Kvapil

Translated from the Bohemian by Charles Recht[1]

THE CAST

Pater Ian Matoush, a village priest.
Maya Zemanova, an actress.
Petr Kocian, a theological student.
Maria Kocianova, his mother, the priest’s sister.
Dr. Votava, a physician.

Scene: A small Bohemian parsonage near the mountains.

ACT I

Courtyard of a country parsonage. Summer afternoon.

Matoush (entering from the outside with his sister).—Well, God willing, by to-morrow night this year’s harvest will be all gathered. To-morrow we’ll get that piece we have on Zablati finished up, and then we’ll thresh it all together. But don’t you work so hard, Marianka. To-day it was awfully hot, and you, poor thing, had to work twice as hard. Petr home?

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