Jonathan Monologue from The Contrast

From The Contrast by Royall Tyler

male · defiant · 1:11 min

Why, the Colonel is one of those folks called the Shin--Shin--dang it all, I can't speak them lignum vitæ words--you know who I mean--there is a company of them--they wear a China goose at their button-hole--a kind of gilt thing.--Now the Colonel told father and brother,--you must know there are, let me see--there is Elnathan, Silas, and Barnabas, Tabitha--no, no, she's a she--tarnation, now I have it--there's Elnathan, Silas, Barnabas, Jonathan, that's I--seven of us, six went into the wars, and I stayed at home to take care of mother. Colonel said that it was a burning shame for the true blue Bunker-Hill sons of liberty, who had fought Governor Hutchinson, Lord North, and the Devil, to have any hand in kicking up a cursed dust against a government which we had, every mother's son of us, a hand in making.

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