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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?

 

1. Copyright, 1911, by Charles Recht. All Rights Reserved.

   Copyright, 1911, by The Poet Lore Company. All Rights Reserved.

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