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Title: The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays

Author: Olive Tilford Dargan and Frederick Peterson

Release Date: December 23, 2006 [EBook #20172]

Language: English

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THE FLUTTER OF THE GOLDLEAF

AND OTHER PLAYS

BY
OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN

AND
FREDERICK PETERSON

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1922

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

PRINTED AT
THE SCRIBNER PRESS
NEW YORK, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE FLUTTER OF THE GOLDLEAF 1

BY OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN AND FREDERICK PETERSON

THE JOURNEY 49

BY OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN

EVERYCHILD 75

BY FREDERICK PETERSON AND OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN

TWO DOCTORS AT AKRAGAS 103

BY FREDERICK PETERSON

THE FLUTTER OF THE GOLDLEAF

A PLAY IN ONE ACT

BY

Olive Tilford Dargan

AND

Frederick Peterson

CHARACTERS

PHILO WARNER, _a student_
HIRAM WARNER, _his father, the village grocer_
MARY ANN WARNER, _his mother_
DR. BELLOWS, _the village physician_
DR. SEYMOUR, _a city specialist_
REBA SLOAN, _a neighbor's daughter_

THE FLUTTER OF THE GOLDLEAF

SCENE: _Laboratory in the attic of