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A De-!perate Game 3 2 After Ten Years 7 5 A Life'.s Revenge 7 5 Arrah de Baugh 7 5 Aurora Floyd 7 2 Auld Robin Gray i^c 13 8 Beanty of Lyons 11 2 Bill Detrick 7 3 Brae, the Poor House Girl.... 4 4 Brigands of Calabria 6 1 Conn; or, Love's Victory 11 3 Dora 5 2 Driven to the Wall 10 3 Driven from Home 7 4 East Lynne 8 7 Emigrant's Daughter S 3 Factory Girl 6 3 Fielding Manor 9 6 Gertie's Vindication 3 3 Hal Hazard, 25c 10 3 Heroic Dutchman of '7i) S 3 Henrv Granden 11 8 How He Did It 3 2 Hidden Treasures 4 2 Hunter of the Alps 9 4 Hidden Hand 15 7 Lights and Shadows ot the Great Rebellion, 25c 10 5 Lady of Lyons.. 12 5 Lady Audley's Secret 6 4 Lost in London 6 4 Man and Wife 12 7 Maud's Peril 5 3 Midnight Mi.«take 6 2 Millie, the Quadroon 4 ! Miriam's Crime 5 2 Michael Erie 8 3 Miller of Derwent Water 5 2 Mistletoe Bough 7 3 Mountebanks (The) 6 2 Old Honesty 5 2 Old Phil's Birthday 5 3 Outcast's Wife 12 3 Out on the World 5 4 Oath Bound 6 2 Painter of Ghent 5 3 Poacher's Doom 8 3 Reverses 12 6 Rock Allen 5 3 Spy of Atlanta, 2oc 11 3 Thekla 9 4 The False Friend 6 1 The Fatal Blow 7 1 The Forty-Niners 10 4 The Dutch Recruit 2'^c 14 3 The Gentleman in Black 9 4 The New Magdalen 8 3 The Reward of Crime 5 3 Through Snow and Sunshine 6 4 NO. M. F 7 The Vow of the Ornaui 7 1 201 Ticket of Leave Man 9 3 193 Toodles 7 2 200 Uncle Tom's Cabin 15 7 121 Will-o'-the-Wisi 9 4 41 WonatLast 7 3 192 Zion 7 4 TEMPERANCE PLAYS. 73 At Last 7 1 75 Adrift 5 4 187 Aunt Dinah's Plflcc 6 3 2.54 Dot; the Miner's Daughter... 9 5 202 Drunkard [The]... 13 5 185 Drunkar I 's Warning 6 3 189 Drunkard's Doom 15 5 181 Fifteen Years of a Drunk- ard's Life 13 4 183 Fruits of the Wine Cup 6 3 104 Lost 6 2 146 Our Awful Aunt 4 4 53 Out in the Streets 6 4 51 Rescued 5 3 59 Saved 2 3 102 Turn of the Tide 7 4 63 Three Glasses a Day 4 2 62 Ten Nights in a Bar-Room... 7 3 58 Wrecked 9 3 COMEDIES. 168 A Pleasure Trip 7 3 136 A Legal Holiday 5 3 124 An Afflicted Family 7 5 257 <"au»-ht in the Act 7 3 248 Captureil 6 4 178 Caste ^ 3 199 Home 4 3 174 Love's Labor Not Lost 3 3 149 New Years in N. Y 7 6 37 Not So Bad After All 6 5 237 Not Such a Fool as He Look.'! 6 3 126 Our Daughters 8 6 114 Passions 8 4 219 Rags and Bottles 4 1 2.39 Scale with Sharps and Flats.. 3 2 221 Solon Shingle 14 2 87 The Biter Bit 3 2 249 $2,000 Reward 2 TRAGEDIES. 16 The Serf 6 3 FARCES AND COMEDIETTAS. 12i) Afir-u-ag-ooH 2 1 132 Actor and Servant 1 1 12 A Capital Match 3 2 166 ATexan Mother-in-Law 4 6 30 A Dav Well Spent ' 5 169 A Regular Fix 2 4 80 Alarmingly Su,spieions 4 o 78 An AwfiJ Criminal 3 3 .rfi UNJUST JUSTICE. AN ORIGINAL FARCE IN ONE ACT, -BY-r^ irED. A. Slmms, TO WHICH IS ADDED— A DESCRIPTION OF THE COSTUMES— CAST OF THE CHARACTEES— ENTRANCES AND EXITS— RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS ON THE STAGE, AND THE WHOLE OF THE STAGE BUSINESS. Entered rjccord'ngto act of Conpress m tTie ?/e«rlS89, Jj/ AMES' PUBLISHING CO., in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, ( DEC ?«18S9 ' CLYDE, OHIO; — -""^^ '/C^' AMES' PUBLISHING C0« \V^Vn^ rrXJUST JUSTICP.. C.^'\\^ . CAST OF CHABACTERS.' '^^ Irish Justice Irish tramp Eye Ketchum * Very emotional knvyer TJ. Cheetum Grcnteel young lawyer Policeman Sleepy Irishman Sault and Battery Tonng tough Pete Larciny Small boy Big Amy „ A Imshand masher Nancy Sykes Sh^^ stealer COSTUMES, Irish Justice — Irish tramp Avith patch on eye; cbimpansey whis- kers; linen duster; old hat with hole in top; complete character make-up. Eye Ketchum — Avhite haired; unshaven; thin and dried up lawyer; character malce-up. U. Cheetum — shabby genteel costume. Policeman — An Irishman who is always falling asleep when needed. This can be worked for the leading or second part by the right party. Big Amy — dressed flashy ; flirt. Nancy Sykes — very hardened make-up ; sun-bonnet, etc. PBOPEBTIES. Justice bench; prisoner's dock; lawyer's table and two chairs; horse pistol; cigar; legal papers, etc.; bladdei". with strin,cr attached; leraij on : loaf of bread. ■;. Time of Performance — About 30 minutes. "" STAGE DIRECTIONS. s., means Right; l., Left; e. h.. Right Hand; l. h., Left Hand; c, Centre; s. E.: {2d E.,] Second Entrance; u. e.. Upper Entrance; m. d.. Middle Door; v., the Flat ». F., Door in Flat; k, c. Right of Centre; l.c, Left of Centre. I B. K. C. C. L. C. L. ^ ^ **« The reader is supposed to be upon the stage facing the audience. UNJUST JUSTICE, SCENE— FuUca court room; table; Judge stand, etc., arranged a*' cordiiighj, U. Chketum discovered at table, writing. Enter, Eye Kktchum, r., in terrible flurry, spurting and yelling. Ketchmn. Here we n re — in a terrible fix I (running from wing to loing) The iiulse is sick a bed wiih corns, and court mwsJ go on ! Oh, Lord! 01), ' Lord ! Oh, Lord! Cheetwia. [rising) What's the matter? What's the matter? Have you a bug iu your ear? Enter, iKisn Justice, l. Eoth lawyers grab him — rush him to R. wing, Ketchum. Saj, do you know anything about (Cheetum pushes Judge to h. side Oheetum. Say, do you know • (Ketchum drags Judge back Ketchum. Say, do you Judge. Yes; 1 do! Ketchum. I mean — do you know anythmg about law? Judge. Why, I'm the biggest liar you ever saw I Cheetum. He mefins — can you act as judge here? {pointing to dock Judge. AVell, I've been there enough times to know something about it ! Ketchum. You're the man we want! Pushes him into Judge's stand — Judge commences pounding on tabU with gavel. I Enter, Policeman, l. Judge, (ifo Ketchum) What's that? (poinfi'n;/ to Policeman Ketchum. 'J'hat, your Honor, is an officer of the law. Judge. It looked to me like a last year's bird's nest, (strikes stank — Policeman jumps as if just waking up) Come here ! (policeman moves in crippled loay to Judge's desk) What's your name? (strikes desk with gavel Policeman. Timothy O'Loom McHarlem O'Dunnigan, your Honor ! Judge. How old are you ? * UNJUST JUSTICE. I was sixteen my last birthday, your Honor. What wages do you get 'i I'ifteen dollars a month, your Honor. Hereafter your wages will be raised to = God bless you, your Honor 1 To fifteen dollars A week ? A year ! {aside — disgusted) God bless you, your Honor ! (strikes gavel on desk) Well, well, what's the first case OE, on desk, jumps up — excitedlij) Not Police. Judge. Police. Judge. Police. Judge. Police. Judge. Police. Judge. the socket? I^etchum. (shocked by blow socket, your Honor — docket ! Judge. Just bring them in and I'll socket to them ! Ketchum. (rises — very dignified, ivith papefs in his hand) The first case on the docket, your Honor, is that of Mary Brandon. Tliii young lady, your Honor, is one of our old cases. We never have tried her before because she has alwaj^s made a masli on the Judge. Now, your Honor, we sincerely hope that your power of resistance will come to your aid, and that you will give her her just dues. Sh4 is charged with bigamy. Judge. O'Dunnigan! (striking desk) Bring in Big Amy ! Ketchum. (interrupting) No, no ! not Big Amy! Bigamy! bigamy \ your Honor! That is — she has more husbands than the law allovvs, Judge. O'Dunnigan! (strikes desk) O'Dunnigan! Wake up! Police. Yes, your Honor. Judge. Bring in more husbands than the law allows ! Policeman goes off, e., keeping time to "Johiiny, get your gun,'^ by orchestra — scrape Joot. Cheetum. Your Honor, don't get excited when she comes in for she is a "wholly woUy," 1 say. Judge. Sit down ! The best of 'em can't get away with me ! Enter, Policeman, loith Mary Brandon, r. She commences flirting with JtJDGE, loho also uses his handkerchief — Mary passes over to dock. Ketchum. (all excited) Y^our Honor ! Your Honor ! You should not flirt with a prisoner! It is far beneath your dignit}^ Judge. That's all right ! Mary, I'll see you outside Come to order! (strikes desk) Now, Avhat's this case all about? Ketchum. (rising — very dignified) Your Honor, this young lady- is charged with bigamy. Judge, (leaning on hand and lo'oking wise) Yes, yes, yes! Ketchum. She married a man in Boston, Mass.; from Boston, Mass., she went to Providence, llhode Island, and there she married another man; from Providence, Rhode Island, she went to Cincin- nati, Ohio, and there she married another man ; from Cincinnati, Ohio, she went to Denver, Colorado, and there slie married another man. Now, your Honor, we all know that this is too many husbands lor one woman. Do your duty! Judge. Young lady, (strikes desk) stand up ! The lawyer in- forms me that you married a man iii Boston, Mass, ; from Boston, UNJUST JUSTICJ':. 5 Maps., yon went to Providence, Rorirl Indian, and there yon married another man; from Providence.. Koad Indian, you went to Cincin- nati, {here Ketchum sticks JirnoK with pin — he yells) Oh ! From Cincinnati, O., jrou went to Denver, collar and necliot forty-second day, your Honor — third da'y. Judge. Yes, yes ! The lawyer informs me that on the third day of {refers to Ketchum Ketchum. Juvemher! Judge. Juvember — you stole the New York Central railroad li^etchtun. (interrupting) Not the New Y^'ork Central railroad- six sheep) — six sheep, your Honor! Judge. Yes, yes! 'J'he lawyer informs me that on the forty- second day of Juvember you stole six thousand sheep. Now, we're these sheep or were tiiese sheets? (strikes desk — all look around for sheep lohen Nancy says, "bah!" Nccncy: Bah ! (all hunt — all quiet again Judge. Were these well sheep or were these sick sheep? Nancy. Bali ! [all hunt again Judge. Are you guilty (strikes) or are you guilty ? Nancy. Bah ! Judge. O'Dunnigan, drive out the sheep! Go 'long! Cheetum, (going up tu Nancy) Now, Nancv. my twenty ccntSj DJease ? , ' UNJUST JUSTIOM. ■ 7 Kancy. Bah ! Here JvvGF. pours a bottle of ink all over KetCHUM's face— when all is quiet Kktchum rises. Ketchum. The next cnse on the docket, your Honor, (commei-'r.es cryinr/) is tli.it of a little boy (all commence' or jing) charged with stealing a loaf of bread, (all hoo-hoo) He is the onlv supporter for his mother and forty-five small children. His father died of stomaich- ache. Be easy on him, your Honor. Judge, trying to straighten up— wiping his eyes on front corner of stand and rim of hat. Judge. O'Dunuigan, (hoo-hoo) bring in Pete Larciny. {exit, Policeman, L, Enter, Policeman, loith small hoy— walks him to stand. Ketchum. There he is, your Honor. Thy will be done. Judge, (sternly) Youiig man, (strikes desk) stand up! The lawyer informs me that you have been stealing bread. Now this here bread bnsiness has gone far enough. I'm not going to sentence you for stealing the bread ; but I'm going to sentence you for bein|C caught. ]Srovv,"yonr sentence is this: "I sentence you to the (stat?) penitentiary for" the course of your natural life; and if you out live that, I do 'hereby give vou "twenty years longer." (all hoo-hoo— Judge cries also) "Take" him away! (Policeman takes him of , i..) 'J'here's no use talking, gentlemen, (spits through hole in his hat) this bread stealing must stop! Strikes desk a terriffic ftZoro— Ketchum jumps up off chair and light- on floor, where his pants hang loose. —Well, what's the next case on the socket? Ketchum, The next case on the docket is that of (they all look off l. Enter, Policeman, l., ivith demijon to mouth— all circle round him. JCetchum. (to Policeman) What is that? Police. Brandj^ and good brandy, too ! (Ketc"hum gets it away from Policeman Chpefum. f^r^ Ketchum) Ketchum, what is that? Ketchum. Whiskej^, and good whiskey, too ! (Chketum secures it, Judge. Cheetum, whnt is that? Chen.tum. Whiskey, Jedge! (Judge gels it and tips it up to mouth— then turns upside doivn Ketchum. (^o -Judge) Judge, what is that? Judge. Air a'd goo-hic-air, too ! All get "snakes" and jump around— Jvdgf. falls on Policeman'' sknee-~ he lays it on to him. I- ' ' CUETAIN. J, - ; THE END. «■: Just Out! A Drama In Six A«ts, by £.izzic May Elwyn, :■ Emiitletl, I —OR- The Flower Girl of New York. SlfWOPSIS. ACT I — Scene I — Interior of Eogues' Eookery. Car- los Dare reveals the secret of S^veetbrier's parentage tohia friend Mike — Ealpli Lindsey — Alice discovers that her child is alive — Sweetbrier and her foster father — Death ofi' Carlos Dare. j ACT II — Scene I — Home of Silas Hnnter — Moses and the letter — Mr. and Mrs. Hunter — The lost spec- tacles — Nancy won't be bossed by city folks — Mr. Lindi sey's surprise and arrest of Hendricks — Carlos Dare's con- fession — Nancy and Moses — Arrival of Sweetbrier — Inez meets an old friend — Earl discovers her secret and breaks their engagement — Green cucumbers. ACT III — Scene I-Ideas of Moses-Sweetbrier an un- loved wife — Hendricks threatens Sweetbrier, "Unhand me villain !" — Inez and Earl — Murder of Hendricks — Arrest of Sweetbrier-Inez declares Sweetbrier guilty — Escape of Sweetbrier. ACT IV — Scene I— Interview between Mr. Lindsey and Earl — Earl discovers his parentage — Inez — Uncle Si- las' dream — What became of Sweetbrier ? "Was she drowned ?" — Discovery of papers — Carlos Dare'e confes- sion found — Death of Lindsey — "He has escaped the con- sequence of his crimes." ACT V — Scene I — Pauline and Moses in New York selling flowers — Mr. and Mrs. Hunter in search of their daughter — Sweetbrier discovers Mr. Hunter — Nancy's ex- perience with New York hackmen, etc. — Moses meets his mother. Scene II — Eogues' Eookery — Sweetbrier comes to Mr. Hunter's rescue — Meeting of Sweetbrier and het mother — Arrest of Nick — Eeunion — Ee-arrest of Sweet, brier. I ^QT YI — Scene I — Earle, as Lord Wayne, recog- •xiizes Sweetbrier as his wife, and the mystery is cleared UD^^Moses tells the story of their escape. B" ■^ iimBs' Plays — unntinuBd. (■),') 81 21 12.J ■M 175 S m tz 84 225 •it) 72 19 1-' IMS 220 U8 218 224 2;« 1-4 184 2U9 l;5 00 11(> 120 103 50 140 74 35 47 95 11 1S2 127 228 100 189 281 "09 1 158 186 44 244 33 240 57 217 165 195 258 in. FARCES CONTINIPD. An Unwelcome Return 3 1 A Pet ot the Public 4 2 A Kouiant c Attachment 3 3 A Thrilling Item 3 1 A Ticket of Leave 3 2 Betsey Baker 2 2 Better Half 5 2 Black vs. \Vhue 4 2 (Japtain Smitli ■' 8 Cheek Will Win 8 Cupiils Capers 4 4 l)er Two Surprises 1 1 Deuce is in Him 5 1 l).(l 1 Drtain it 4 3 Domes ie Folicrcy 1 1 Dutch Pn/c i-'ifihter 3 Diitohyvs. Nigger 3 Eh? W at Did You Say 3 1 Everybody Astonished 4 Fooling with the Wrong Man 2 1 Freezing a Mother-in-Law... 2 1 Fun in a Post Office 4 2 Family Discipline 1 vroose with the (iolden Egg.-'.. 5 3 (JivoMeMv Wife 3 3 Han-, the Dutch J. P 8 1 Hash 4 2 n. M. y. Plum 1 1 How Sister Pa.\ey got her Child Biptiz d 2 1 How Siie has Own Way 1 3 How lie Popped the Quest'n. 1 1 How t> Tame Ai-in-Law 4 2 How Stout Vour Getting 5 2 In the Wrong Box 3 In the Wrong Clothes 5 3 John Smith 5 8 Jumbo Juin 4 3 Kill'oi; Time..... 1 1 Kittie'/- Wedding Cake 1 3 Lick Skillet Wedding 2 2 Lauderbnch's Little Surprise i3 Lodgings for Two 8 Matrimonial Bliss 1 1 Match for a Mother-iu-Liiw., 2 2 More Blunders thiin one 4 8, Mother's Fool 6 1 Mr. and Mrs. Pringle 7 4 Mr. Hudson's Tiger Hunt 1 1 My Heart's in Highlands 4 3 ^ y Prec'ous Betsey 4 4 Mv Turn Next 4 3 M Wife's Relations 4 4 My Day and Now-a-Days 1 Obedience 1 2 Old Clothes 3 On the Sly 3 2 Othello 4 1 Paddy Miles' Boy 5 2 Paten* Washing Machine 4 1 Persecuted Dutchman 6 3 Poor Pilicody 2 3 Prof.Bones'Latest Invention 5 NO. M F. 159 Quiet Family 4 4 171 Rough Diamond 4 8 180 Ripples 2 4« Sch. aps 1 1 138 Sewing Circle of P riod 5 115 S. H. A. M. P.nafore 3 3 .55 Somebody's Nobody 3 2 24! S[)orts on a Lark 3 282 Sta-e Struck Yank, e 4 2 2.8 Strawberry Sh'irtoiike 2 187 Taking the Census 1 1 40 Th,t Mysterious B'dle 2 2 245 Ticket Taker 3 38 T e Bewitched Closet 5 2 131 The Cigarette 4 2 101 The Coming Man 8 1 107 Turn H m Out 3 2 OS The Sham Prof ssor 4 54 TheTwoT.J's 4 2 2-3 1 he Best Cur^ 4 1 28 ihirty-three Ne.vt Birthday.. 4 2 142 Tit for Tat 2 1 213 Vermont Wool Dealer 5 3 151 Wanted a Unsound 2 1 5 When AVomen Weep 3 2 .56 Wooing Under Ditficultie 5 3 70 Which will he Man-)' 2 8 135 Widower's Trials 4 5 147 Wakiig Him Up 1 2 155 Why they .loined th ; Re- becca^ 4 111 Yankee Duelist 3 1 157 Yankee Peddler 7 3 ETHIOPIAN FARCES. 204 Academy of Stars 6 15 An Unhappy Pair 1 1 172 Black Shoemaker 4 2 98 BlackStatue 4 2 222 Colored Senators 8 214 Chops 8 145 Cuff's Luck 2 1 !90 Crimps Trip ■> 249 Double Electi' n 9 1 27 Fetter Lane to Graveseud 2 230 Hamlet the Dainty 6 1 l.')8 Haunted House 2 24 Handy Andy 2 230 Hypochondriac The 2 247 Incompatibility of Temper... 1 2 77 Joe's Vis t 2 1 88 Mischievous Nigger 4 2 256 Midnight Colie 2 1 128 Musical Darkey 2 259 Nobody's Moke 5 2 90 No Cure No Pay 3 1 01 Not as Deaf as He Seems 3 234 Old Dad's Cabin 2 1 150 OldPompey 1 1 109 Other People's Children 3 2 1.34 Pomp's Pranks '2 177 Quarrel ome Servants 3 9(5 Rooms to Let 2 1 107 School 5 rfi 017 401 411 5 iimes^ Plays--- CantinuBd. ETHIOPIAN FABCE8-C0NT'U£D. 133 Seeing Bosting 3 179 Sham Bootor «. 3 3 9i lii,(tf III Years Ago 3 25 Sport with a Sportsman 2 92 Stage Struck Barkoy 2 1 241 Stnxck by Lightning 2 2 10 Stocks Up, Stocks Down 2 64 That Boy Sam 3 1 252 That Awful Carpet Bag 3 3 122 The Select School 5 118 The Popcorn Mail 3 1 (J The Studio 3 108 Those Awful Boys 5 4 Twain's Dodging 3 1 197 Tricks 5 2 198 Uncle Jeif 5 2 170 U. S. Mail 2 2 216 Vice Versa 3 1 17 i;i0 215 250 260 ViilkeS ani Dinah 4 1 Virginia Mummy 6 1 Who Stole the Chickens 1 1 William Tell 4 Wig-Maker and His Servants 3 GUIDE BOOKS. Hints on Elocution. Hints to Amateurs.. CANTATA. On to Victory TABLEAUX. Festival of Days PANTOMIME. Cousin John's Album.. 4 6 MAKE YOUR OWN WIGS! .>o