gibbs

twins eh? towns getting bigger every year

Good morning, Howie

Good morning mrs. gibbs

children! children! time to get up

Come on bessie

George! Rebecca! Everything all right frank?

Yes I declare, easy as kittens

Set down and drink your coffee. You can catch a couple of hours’ sleep this morning can’t you?

Webbs- Emilieee! time to get up! wally! seven o clock

You got to speak to george. seems like somethings come over him lately. He’s no help to me at all. I can’t even get him to cut me some wood.

is he sassy to you?

No! he just whines! All he thinks about is that besabell. George! rebecca! you’ll be late for school

Mama, george’s throwing soap at me

I’ll come and slap the both of you. That’s what I’ll do.

No books at table. As for me, I’d rather have my children healthy than bright

I’ll speak to your father about it when hes rested. Seems to me twenty-five cents a weeks enough for a boy your age. I declare I don’t know how you spend it all.

I’ve been saving up gradual

Eat your breakfast

Walk fast but you don’t have to run

Tell miss foster I send her my best congratulations. Can you remember that?

Good-by

Good morning myrtle. How’s your cold?

Well, I still get that tickling feeling in my throat. I told charles I didn’t know as I’d had choir practice tonight. Wouldn’t be any use

Have you tried singing over your voice?

Good night, Martha, good night, Mr. Foster

Myrtle Webb! Look at that moon will you

Naturally I didn’t want to say a work bout it in front of the others, but really, it's the worst scandal that ever was in this town!

What?

Simon Stinson!

Now, Louella!

To have the organist of a church drink and drunk year after year.

Now Louella! We all know about Mr. Stimson and we all know about the troubles he’s been through, and Dr. Ferguson knows it too, and if Dr. Ferguson keeps him there in his job; the only thing the rest of us can do it just not to notice it.

It’s getting better. I’ve been in that choir twice as long as you have. It doesn't happen anywhere near so often. My, I hate to go to bed on a night like this

WALK TO SPENCER Well we had a real good time

And you stopping at the corner to gossip with a lot of hens

Now, Frank, don’t be grouchy. Just smell the heliotrope in the moonlight

What were the girls gossiping about tonight?

Well, believe me Frank, there is something to gossip about

Hmm! Simon stinson far gone, was he?

Worst i’ve ever seen him. How’ll that end Frank?

I guess I know more about Simon Stinson affairs than anybody in this town….irecokon you’ll have your wood chopped for a while anyway. Now lets get upstairs

You know frank, Mrs. Fairchild always locks her front door every night. All those people up that part of town do.

Howie : Oh, taint bad, Think maybe it’ll clear up for good 

Good morning howie, Do you think its going to rain again?

Morning, Mrs. Gibbs. It rained so heavy, I think maybe it’ll clear up

certainly hope it will

How much did you want today?

I’m going to have a houseful of relations howie. Looks to me i’ll need three-a-milk and two-a-cream. Thanks a lot howie 

Well, ma, the day has come you’re losing one of your chicks

Frank gibbs, don’t you dare say another word. I feel like crying every minute

The grooms up shaving himself. Only there aint an awful lot to shave. Whistling and singing, like hes glad to leave us. Every now and then he says “I dot” to the mirror, but it don’t sound convincing to me.

I declare Frank, I don’t know how he’ll get along. I’ve arranged his clothes and seen it hes put warm things on (pause) Frank! They’re too young. Emily won’t think of such things. He’ll catch his death of cold within a week.

I was remembering my wedding morning, Julia.

Now don’t start that Frank gibbs.

i was teh scariest young fella in the state of new hampshire. I thought id made a mistake for sure. And when I saw you comin down that aisle I thought you were the prettiest girl id ever seen

And how do you think i felt! Drank, weddings are perfectly awful things, farces that’s what they are!

Ye-e-es! ….The relation of a son is the darnedest, awkwardest 

well mother and daughters no picnic let me tell you.

They’ll have a lot of troubles I suppose, but that’s none of out business. Everybody has a right to their own troubles

Yes…people are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be

Lonesome.

Julia, do you know one of the things I was scared of when I married you?

Oh go along with you!

I was afraid we wouldn't have material for conversation more'n'd last us a few

weeks. I was afraid we'd run out and eat our meals in silence, that's a fact. Well, you and I been conversing for twenty years now without any noticeable barren spells.

Well good weather bad weather, taint very choice but I always find something to say. Did you hear rebecca stirring around upstairs?

No. Only day of the year Rebecca hasn't been managing everybody's business

up there. She's hiding in her room. I got the impression she's crying.

Lord sakes this has got to stop! Rebecca! Rebecca! Come down here.

GEORGE: Good morning, everybody. Only five more hours to live.

George gibbs where are you going?

GEORGE: Just stepping across the grass to see my girl.

George! You’ll catch your death of cold and cough all through the service

DR. GIBBS: George, do as your mother tells you!.

From tomorrow on you can kill yourself in all weathers, but while you're in my house you'll live wisely, thank you.

 I hope some of her girl friends have told her a thing or two. It's cruel, I know, but I couldn't bring myself to say anything. I went into it blind as a bat myself.

(The Choir starts singing "Love Divine, All Love Excelling”. George takes a few steps of withdrawal)

George! George! What’s the matter!

GEORGE: Ma, I don't want to grow old. Why's everybody pushing me so?

Why George..you wanted it. 

GEORGE: No, Ma, listen to me…

No..no George you’re a man now

GEORGE: Listen, Ma, for the last time I ask you…all I want to do is to be a fella…

George! If anyone should hear you! Now stop. Why i’m ashamed of you!

GEORGE: Where's Emily?

George! You gave me such a turn

SAM CRAIG: Why, this is my Aunt Julia

JOE STODDARD: Yes, Doc Gibbs lost his wife two…three years ago about this time. And today's

another pretty bad blow for him, too.

That’s my sister’s careys boy. Sam..Sam craig

SIMON STIMSON: I'm always uncomfortable when they're around.

Simon

MRS. SOAMES: Who is it, Julia?

My daughter in law, Emily Webb

MRS. SOAMES: What did she die of, Julia?

In childbirth

EMILY: Hello, Mother Gibbs.

They’ll be gone soon dear, just rest yourself

EMILY: Papa remembered that that was my favorite hymn. Mother Gibbs, George and I have made that farm into just the best place you ever saw. We thought of you all the time. We wanted to show you the new barn and a great long cement drinking fountain for the stock. We bought that out of the money you left us. (Emily’s voice trails off as she looks at the mourners.) It won't be the same to George without me, but it's a lovely farm. Live people don't understand, do they?

No dear..not very much

EMILY: They're sort of shut up in little boxes, aren't they? I feel as though I knew them

last a thousand years ago. Mother Gibbs, when does this feeling go away? Of being…one of them? How long does it…?

Shhh dear, just wait and be patient

EMILY: I know. Look, they're finished. They're going.

SHHHHHHHHHH

EMILY: But, Mother Gibbs, one can go back; one can go back there again…into living. Why just then for a moment I was thinking about...about the farm…and for a minute I was there and…

All I can say is Emily, don’t.

STAGE MANAGER:: Yes, some have tried but they soon come back here.

Don’t do it Emily.

EMILY: But is that…painful? Why?

When you’ve been here longer you’ll understand 

EMILY: But it's a thing I must know for myself. I'll choose a happy day, anyway.

Choose the least important day of your life. It will be important enough.

EMILY: I'm ready to go back. SHE SITS

Were you happy?

EMILY: No. I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people.

Look! Its clearing up, the stars are coming out.

SIMON STIMSON:Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those…of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know. That's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness

Simon Stinson that aint the whole truth and you know it. Emily, look at that star I forget its name.

EMILY: Mother Gibbs, it's George.

Shh dear, just rest yourself

EMILY: Mother Gibbs?

Yes, Emily?

EMILY: They don't understand, do they?

No dear, they don’t understand 

321 you

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