Jerry Monologue from She Would Be a Soldier; Or, The Plains of Chippewa

From She Would Be a Soldier; Or, The Plains of Chippewa by M. M. (Mordecai Manuel) Noah

male · comedic · 1:04 min

Now, my dear good-natured jailor, only have pity on me, and I'll tell you all about it. (JAILOR: I won't hear you--didn't you breed a riot?) Why no, it was not me. I am as innocent as a young lamb. I'll tell you how it was--come, sit down on this bench with me. (They sit.) You must know that I'm a farmer, pretty well off, as a body mout say, and I wanted a wife; hard by our village, there lived an old soger with a pretty daughter, so I courted the old man for his daughter, and he consented to the match. (JAILOR: Well?) And so I got together all my neighbours, and, with music, went to the old soger's to get my sweetheart, when, lo and behold! after all my trouble, she refused me plump.

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