Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PILGRIM INTERLUDE PILGRIM CHANT (Tune: Oxford. To be sung off stage by the Puritan . maidens before they enter to take part in the episode.) Gone is now the sullen winter, Gone the famine and the snow; In the forest, like a promise, See the first white mayflowers blow. Fresh hope thrills us with their coming, They, too, braved the winter long; Then at Springtime took new leafage, Frail yet steadfast, small but strong. Cling we thus to our new country, Let us struggle and endure ; We have found a land of Freedom, And our heritage is sure. THE SPINNING LESSON (A Pilgrim Interlude) CHARACTERS Priscilla Mullins John Billington ) Degory Martin JLads of Plymouth Town Patience Diantha ,. ,,,., . ,, ., , y Youthful rilgrim Maidens Miriam Lettice Star-of-spring, an Indian maiden Natiqua, a squaw, her mother Forest Flower, another Indian maiden Heron's Wing, a young Indian brave Scene: A grassy glade at Plymouth in the Spring of 1621. Trees right, left, and background. At the beginning of the scene the grassy stage is deserted. There presently enters from background Anne, a young Pilgrim maid of about fourteen, whose somber garb shows out darkly against the green background. She looks quickly about her, right and left, shielding her eyes with her hand. Then she calls back over her shoulder to her companions, Diantha and Lettice. Anne (calling). Come quickly, Diantha. Here is a fair spot for our corn-shelling, and not a prowling Indian in sight. [Diantha, slender, dark, and somewhat older than Anne, enters with Lettice. They carry between them an Indian basket of capacious size, in which are dried ears of corn. Diantha (clearly). Nay, we need have no fear; for on one side Captain Miles Standish...