Excerpt from The Image and Other Plays Mrs. Coppinger: It is a queer thing you to be content, Thomas Coppinger, and you knocking out a living among the dead. It is no way con tent I myself would be, and to be following a trade that is all for gloom. Coppinger: It is not, but in the world wide there is not so lively or SO pleasant a trade. Wait now till I'll sound that out to you. A man to be a herd now, and to be sent back out Of the fair with beasts, the very time the sport would begin, or to be landing fish from a hooker and to be made take the tide at the very minute maybe the crowds would be gathering for a race, or an assizes, or a thing Of the kind, it is downhearted you would be coming into your own little place, and all the stir left after you. But to be turning back from a bury ing, and you living, and all that company lying dumb, and the rain coming down through the clay over their heads, and their friends crying them, that is the time your own little cabin would shine out as good as a wake house, in the time a wake house was all one with a dance house. Mrs. Coppinger: That is not so in this place. NO playing or funning or springing, but to be talk ing they do be, stupid talk about themselves and to be smoking tobacco. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.