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diff --git a/old/68576-0.txt b/old/68576-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ef6fa59..0000000 --- a/old/68576-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1055 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of Poor Jack, by Anonymous - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Poor Jack - A play in one act - -Author: Anonymous - -Release Date: July 20, 2022 [eBook #68576] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Charlene Taylor, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The - Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POOR JACK *** - - - - - - POOR JACK - - A PLAY IN ONE ACT - - “_What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh - Keep in a little life! Poor Jack, farewell! - I could have better spared a better man._” - - PRIVATELY PRINTED - RICHMOND - 1906 - - - - -_To R. D. L._: - - -“There are some ghosts,” said poor Jack, “that will not easily bear -raising....” - -Thus am I confounded by words of my own choosing, for in truth I have -raised one; and not for me, as for Dame Sylvia, does Chivalry blow upon -a silver horn to drown the squeakings of that folly. Which is merely -another way of saying that those younglings we two know and love, and -who fretted me into the writing of a play for their theatricals, have -rejected the outcome after a tentative rehearsal, with certain remarks -for my pondering. - -Well might that fat whoresome man have been left to the undignified -fate his creator had appointed for him!--or at least in the staider -trappings wherewith I did gird his behemothian bulk in my story, _The -Love Letters of Falstaff_. Decked for the stage and with bella donna -in its eyes, my sketch, they tell me, is a ghastly remains to which -the footlights would add but the effect of funeral candles. In fine, -that which lacks both plot and action, and offers, in lieu of lusty -characters, four gray ghosts, is not a play but an edifying exposé of -the pitfalls and snares into which a romancist might be expected to -stumble when he dons the habit of a playwright. These and many other -plaints which I shall strive to live down in the years before me, -conveyed a discomforting unanimity of opinion on the part of my hopeful -players. - -With such humility as becomes one of our soberer estate in the presence -of these, our juniors and betters, I pointed out that it was not my -fault, assuredly, that Falstaff was no longer the merry taker of purses -whose roaring oaths had filled all Gadshill. Nor that Will had never -displayed any very hearty admiration for humanity nor found many more -commendable traits in general exercise among its individuals than did -the authors of the Bible: a spirit which, however distasteful to my -palate, I was obliged in this instance to emulate! Yet I dared think -(and my defense grew noticeably weaker under their incredulous stare) -that old, gross and decayed as he had grown, the demiurge still clings -to the old reprobate; yea, and the aura of divinity to Helen, whose -beauty is drifting dust, so that Falstaff sees before him not Sylvia -Vernon but Sylvia Darke. - -Poor Falstaff. “Were’t not for laughing I should pity him!” - -But they had since ceased to listen. Vanished were they like the merry -company whose mere names, thought Falstaff, were like a breath of -country air. My script lay before me, eloquent in naught but their -disillusion. Alone, I thought the fire winked knowingly at me, much -like the one I had fanned from the embers of the past, as if it said: -How old must a man become ’ere he shall be wise enough to content these -sure young critics, so awfully and so inevitably right? - -I should have dropped the record of my folly into the flames and so -played out the last scene in my puppet’s stead, had I not remembered -in time my promise to you. Well!--you had expected to receive it worn -from the caresses of eager thumbs, scented perhaps with the bouquet of -reverent applause. It comes to you fresh and unmarred by any defacing -ardor; only its theme is sere, only its author’s vanity thumb-marked! - -And remember: ’tis not a play you give to the world but rather a spirit -croaking to itself in a house where nobody has lived for a long time. - - _J. B. C._ - - - - -CAST - - - SIR JOHN FALSTAFF _Sometime friend to H. M. Henry V_ - BARDOLPH _His serving man_ - DAME QUICKLY _Mistress of the Boar’s Head Inn_ - LADY SYLVIA VERNON _She that was Sylvia Darke_ - - - - -POOR JACK - - -(_The curtain rises to show the Angel room of the Boar’s Head Tavern in -Eastcheap. ’Tis the private parlor of the mistress of the inn, DAME -QUICKLY._ - -_At the back is a high fireplace with heavy leaded diamond paned -windows on either side. At the left is the doorway leading to the tap -room, on the right a huge clothes press. When our play opens DAME -QUICKLY is demurely stirring the fire while BARDOLPH is sorting -garments which he takes from the press. We hear a quivery voice -singing:_ “Then Came Bold Sir Caradoc” ... _and SIR JOHN FALSTAFF -fumbles at the door and enters. It is a FALSTAFF much broken since -his loss of the King’s favor and now equally decayed in wit, health -and reputation. His paunch alone remains prosperous and monstrous -and contrasts greatly with the shrunken remainder of the man. He -is particularly shaky this morning after a night’s hard drinking. -Nevertheless he enters with what cheerfulness he can muster._) - -FALSTAFF - -(_sings_) Then came the Bold Sir Caradoc--Ah, Mistress what news?--and -eke Sir Pellinore--Did I rage last night, Bardolph? Was I a Bedlamite? - -BARDOLPH - -As mine own bruises can testify. Had each one of them a tongue they -would raise a clamor beside which Babel were an heir weeping for his -rich uncle’s death; their testimony would qualify you for any mad-house -in England. And if their evidence go against the doctor’s stomach, -the watchman at the corner hath three teeth--or rather, hath them no -longer, since you knocked them out last night, that will willingly aid -him to digest it. - -FALSTAFF - -(_as he stiffly lowers his great body into the great chair that awaits -him beside the fire and stretches his hands to catch the heat of the -flames._) Three say you? I would have my valor in all men’s mouths, but -not in this fashion, for it is too biting a jest. Three, say you? Well, -I am glad it was no worse; I have a tender conscience and that mad -fellow of the North, Hotspur, sits heavily upon it, so that thus this -Percy, being slain by my valor, is _per se_ avenged, a plague upon -him! Three, say you? I would to God my name were not so terrible to the -enemy as it is; I would I had ’bated my natural inclination somewhat -and slain less tall fellows by three score. I doubt Agamemnon slept not -well o’ nights. Three, say you? Give the fellow a crown apiece for his -mouldy teeth, if thou hast them; if thou hast them not, bid him eschew -this vice of drunkenness whereby his misfortune hath befallen him, and -thus win him heavenly crowns. - -BARDOLPH - -Indeed Sir, I doubt.... - -FALSTAFF - -(_testily_) Doubt not, Sirrah! (_He continues more calmly in a virtuous -manner_) Was not the apostle reproved for that same sin? Thou art a -Didymus, Bardolph,--an incredulous paynim, a most unspeculative rogue. -Have I carracks trading in the Indies? Have I robbed the exchequer of -late? Have I the Golden Fleece for a cloak? Nay, it is a paltry gimlet, -and that augurs badly. Why does this knavish watchman take me for a -raven to feed him in the wilderness? Tell him that there are no such -ravens hereabouts; else I had ravenously limed the house-tops and sets -springes in the gutters. Inform him that my purse is no better lined -than his own broken skull; it is void as a beggar’s protestations, or -a butcher’s stall in Lent; light as a famished gnat, or the sighing of -a new-made widower; more empty than a last year’s bird’s nest, than a -madman’s eye, or, in fine, than the friendship of a king. - -MISTRESS QUICKLY - -But you have wealthy friends, Sir John. (_She nods her head -vigorously_) Yes I warrant you Sir John. Sir John, you have a many -wealthy friends; you cannot deny that, Sir John. - -FALSTAFF - -(_He cowers closer to the fire as though he were a little cold_) I -have no friends since Hal is King. I had I grant you, a few score of -acquaintances whom I taught to play at dice; paltry young blades of -the City, very unfledged juvenals! Setting my knighthood and my valor -aside, if I did swear friendship with these, I did swear to a lie. But -this is a censorious and muddy-minded world, so that, look you, even -these sprouting aldermen, these foul, bacon-fed rogues, have fled my -friendship of late, and my reputation hath grown somewhat more murky -than Erebus. No matter! I walk alone as one that hath the pestilence. -No matter! But I grow old, I am not in the vanward of my youth, -Mistress. - -(_He reaches for the cup of sack that BARDOLPH has poured out and -holds on a tray at his elbow._) - -MISTRESS QUICKLY - -Indeed, I do not know what your worship will do. - -FALSTAFF - -(_Drinks the sack down and grins in a somewhat ghostly fashion_) Faith! -unless the Providence that watches over the fall of a sparrow hath an -eye to the career of Sir John Falstaff, Knight, and so comes to my -aid shortly, I must need convert my last doublet into a mask and turn -highwayman in my shirt. I can take purses yet, ye Uzzite comforters, as -gaily as I did at Gadshill, where that scurvy Poins, and he that is now -King, and some twoscore other knaves did afterward assault me in the -dark; yet I peppered some of them I warrant you. - -BARDOLPH - -You must be rid of me then, Master. I for one have no need of a hempen -collar. - -FALSTAFF - -(_stretching himself in the chair_) I, too, would be loth to break the -gallow’s back. For fear of halters, we must alter our way of living; -we must live close, Bardolph, till the wars make us Croesuses or food -for crows. And if Hal but hold to his bias, there will be wars: I will -eat a piece of my sword, if he hath not need of it shortly. Ah, go -thy ways, tall Jack; there live not three good men in England and one -of them is fat, and grows old. We must live close, Bardolph, we must -forswear drinking and wenching! But there is lime in this sack, you -rogue, give me another cup. - -(_BARDOLPH draws and brings him another cup of sack which he empties at -one long draught._) - -FALSTAFF - -I pray you hostess, remember that Doll Tearsheet sups with me tonight; -have a capon of the best and be not sparing of your wine. I will repay -you, upon honor, when we young fellows return from France, all laden -with rings and brooches and such trumperies like your Norfolkshire -pedlars at Christmas-tide. We will sack a town for you, and bring you -back the Lord Mayor’s beard to stuff you a cushion; the Dauphin shall -be your tapster yet: we will walk on lilies, I warrant you to the tune -of “hey then, up go we.” - -MISTRESS QUICKLY - -Indeed, Sir, your worship is as welcome to my pantry as the mice--a pox -on them--think themselves; you are heartily welcome. Ah, well, old Puss -is dead; I had her of Goodman Quickly these ten years since;--but I had -thought that you looked for the lady who was here but now;--she was a -roaring lion among the mice. - -FALSTAFF - -(_with great animation_) What Lady? Was it Flint the Mercer’s wife, -think you? Ah, she hath a liberal disposition, and will, without the -aid of Prince Houssain’s carpet or the horse of Cambuscan, transfer the -golden shining pieces from her husband’s coffers to mine. - -MISTRESS QUICKLY - -(_after due consideration_) No mercer’s wife, I think. She came with -two patched footmen and smelled of gentility;--Master Dumbleton’s -father was a mercer; but he had red hair;--she is old;--and I could -never abide red hair. - -FALSTAFF - -No matter! I can love this lady, be she a very Witch of Endor. Observe -what a thing it is to be a proper man, Bardolph! She hath marked -me;--in public, perhaps; on the street, it may be;--and then, I -warrant you, made such eyes! and sighed such sighs! and lain awake -o’ nights, thinking of a pleasing portly gentleman, whom, were I not -modesty’s self, I might name;--and I, all this while, not knowing! -Fetch me my book of riddles and my sonnets, that I may speak smoothly. -Why was my beard not combed this morning? No matter, it will serve. -Have I no better cloak than this? - -MISTRESS QUICKLY - -(_who has been looking out of the window_) Come, but your worship must -begin with unwashed hands, for old Madame Wishfor’t and her two country -louts are even now at the door. - -FALSTAFF - -Avaunt, minions. Avaunt! Conduct the lady hither, hostess; Bardolph -another cup of sack. We will ruffle it, lad, and go to France all -gold like Midas! Are mine eyes too red? I must look sad, you know, -and sigh very pitifully. Ah, we will ruffle it! Another cup of sack, -Bardolph;--I am a rogue if I have drunk to-day. And avaunt! vanish! for -the lady comes! (_He throws himself into what he feels is a gallant -attitude, but that is one that suggests to the audience a man suddenly -palsied trying to imitate a turkey cock and struts to the door. The -lady that enters is on the staider side of sixty, but the years have -touched her with unwonted kindliness and her form is still unbent, -her countenance, although bloodless and deep furrowed still bears the -traces of great beauty and she is unquestionably a person of breeding. -SIR JOHN advances to her with his peculiar strut; indubitably he feels -himself a miracle of elegance._) - -FALSTAFF - -See, from the glowing East, Aurora Comes! Madam permit me to welcome -you to my poor apartments; they are not worthy.... - -LADY SYLVIA - -I would see Sir John Falstaff, sir. - -FALSTAFF - -Indeed, Madam, if those bright eyes--whose glances have already cut -my poor heart into as many pieces as the man in the front of the -almanac--will but desist for a moment from such butcher’s work and do -their proper duty, you will have little trouble in finding the bluff -soldier you seek. - -LADY SYLVIA - -Are you Sir John? The son of old Sir Edward Falstaff of Norfolk? - -FALSTAFF - -His wife hath frequently assured me so, and to confirm her evidence I -have about me a certain villainous thirst that did plague Sir Edward -sorely in his lifetime and came to me with his other chattels. The -property I have expended long since; but no Jew will advance me a -maravedi on the Falstaff thirst. It is a priceless commodity, not to be -bought or sold; you might as soon quench it. - -LADY SYLVIA - -I would not have known you, but, I have not seen you these forty years. - -FALSTAFF - -Faith, Madam, the great pilferer Time hath taken away a little from my -hair, and somewhat added--saving your presence--to my belly; and my -face hath not been improved by being the grindstone for some hundred -swords. But I do not know you. - -LADY SYLVIA - -I am Sylvia Vernon. And once years ago I was Sylvia Darke. - -FALSTAFF - -I remember. (_His voice changes, he also loses his strut as he hands -LADY SYLVIA to the great chair._) - -LADY SYLVIA - -(_after a long pause_) A long time ago. Time hath dealt harshly with us -both, John;--the name hath a sweet savor. I am an old woman now. And -you? - -FALSTAFF - -I would not have known you. (_Resentfully_) What do you here? - -LADY SYLVIA - -My son goes to the wars and I am come to bid him farewell; yet I should -not tarry in London for my lord is feeble and hath constant need of me. -But I, an old woman, am yet vain enough to steal these few moments from -him who needs me, to see for the last time, mayhap, him who once was my -very dear friend. - -FALSTAFF - -I was never your friend, Sylvia. - -LADY SYLVIA - -(_with a wistful smile_) Ah the old wrangle. My dear and very honored -lover, then; and I am come to see him here. - -FALSTAFF - -Ay.... ’Tis a quiet orderly place, where I bestow my patronage; the -woman of the house had a husband once in my company. God rest his -soul! he bore a good pike. He retired in his old age and ’stablished -this tavern where he passed his declining years, till death called -him gently away from this naughty world. God rest his soul, say I. -(_aside_) God wot, I cannot tell her that the rogue was knocked over -the head with a joint-stool while rifling the pockets of a drunken -roisterer! - -LADY SYLVIA - -And you for old memories’ sake yet aid his widow? That is like you, -John. (_There is a long silence in which the crackling of the fire can -be plainly heard._) And are you sorry that I come again, in a worse -body, John, strange and time ruined? - -FALSTAFF - -Sorry?... No, faith! but there are some ghosts that will not easily -bear raising and you have raised one. - -LADY SYLVIA - -We have summoned up no very fearful spectre, I think. At most no worse -than a pallid gentle spirit that speaks--to me at least--of a boy and a -girl who loved each other and were very happy a great while ago. - -FALSTAFF - -And you come hither to seek that boy? The boy that went mad and rhymed -of you in those far off dusty years? He is quite dead, my lady, he was -drowned, mayhap in a cup of wine; or he was slain, perchance, by some -few light women. I know not how he died. But he is quite dead, my lady, -and I had not been haunted by his ghost until to-day. (_He breaks into -a fit of unromantic coughing_) - -LADY SYLVIA - -He was a dear boy. A boy who loved a young maid very truly; a boy that -found the maid’s father too strong and shrewd for desperate young -lovers--eh, how long ago it seems and what a flood of tears the poor -maid shed at being parted from that dear boy. - -FALSTAFF - -Faith! the rogue had his good points. - -LADY SYLVIA - -Ah, John, you have not forgotten, I know and you will believe me that I -am heartily sorry for the pain I brought into your life. - -FALSTAFF - -My wounds heal easily-- - -LADY SYLVIA - -For though my dear dead father was too wise for us, and knew it was for -the best that I should not accept your love, believe me John, I always -knew the value of it and have held it an honor that any woman must -prize. - -FALSTAFF - -Dear Lady, the world is not altogether of your opinion. - -LADY SYLVIA - -I know not of the world, for we live away from it. But we have heard -of you ever and anon; I have your life writ letter perfect these forty -years or more. - -FALSTAFF - -You have heard of me? - -LADY SYLVIA - -As a gallant and brave soldier. Of how you fought at sea with Mowbray -that was afterward Duke of Norfolk; of your knighthood by King Richard; -of how you slew the Percy at Shrewsbury; and captured Coleville o’ late -in Yorkshire; and how the prince, that is now King, did love you above -all other men; and in fine, of many splendid doings in the great world. - -FALSTAFF - -I have fought somewhat. But we are not Bevis of Southampton; we have -slain no giants. Have you heard naught else? - -LADY SYLVIA - -Little else of note. But we are very proud of you at home in Norfolk. -And such tales as I have heard I have woven together in one story; and -I have told it many times to my children as we sat on the old Chapel -steps at evening and the shadows lengthened across the lawn, and I bid -them emulate this, the most perfect knight and gallant gentleman I have -ever known. And they love you, I think, though but by repute. - -(_There is another long silence, finally--_) - -FALSTAFF - -Do you still live at Winstead? - -LADY SYLVIA - -Yes, in the old house. It is little changed, but there are many changes -about. - -FALSTAFF - -Is Moll yet with you that did once carry our letters? - -LADY SYLVIA - -Married to Hodge, the tanner, and dead long since. - -FALSTAFF - -And all our merry company? Marian? and Tom and little Osric? And -Phyllis? and Adelais? Zounds, it is like a breath of country air to -speak their names once more. - -LADY SYLVIA - -(_She speaks in a hushed voice_) All dead save Adelais and even to me -poor Adelais seems old and strange. Walter was slain in the French wars -and she hath never married. - -FALSTAFF - -All dead.... This same death hath a wide maw. It is not long before you -and I, my lady, will be at supper with the worms. But you at least have -had a happy life? - -LADY SYLVIA - -I have been content enough, but all that seems run by; for, John, -I think that at our age we are not any longer very happy, or very -miserable. - -FALSTAFF - -Faith! we are both old; and I had not known it, my lady until to-day. - -(_Again silence. Finally LADY SYLVIA rises with a start._) - -LADY SYLVIA - -I would I had not come. - -FALSTAFF - -Nay, this is but a feeble grieving you have awakened. For, madam, you -whom I loved once--you are in the right. Our blood runs thinner than -of yore; and we may no longer, I think, either rejoice or sorrow very -deeply. - -LADY SYLVIA - -It is true.... I must go ... and indeed I would to God, that I had not -come. (_FALSTAFF bows his head and remains silent. Presently she goes -on_) Yet, there is something here which I must keep no longer; for here -are all the letters you ever writ me. (_She hands him a little packet. -He turns them awkwardly in his hands once or twice; stares at them and -then at her._) - -FALSTAFF - -You have kept them--always? - -LADY SYLVIA - -Yes, but I must not be guilty of continuing such follies. It is a -villainous example to my grandchildren.... Farewell. - -(_FALSTAFF draws close to her and takes both her hands in his. He looks -her in the eyes and draws himself very erect._) - -FALSTAFF - -How I loved you! - -LADY SYLVIA - -I know and I thank you for your gift, my lover, O brave, true lover, -whose love I was not ever ashamed to own! Farewell, my dear, yet a -little while, and I go to seek the boy and girl we know of. - -FALSTAFF - -I shall not be long, madam. Speak a kind word for me in Heaven; for I -have sore need of it. - -LADY SYLVIA - -(_By this time she has reached the door_) You are not sorry that I came? - -FALSTAFF - -There are many wrinkles now in your dear face, my lady, the great eyes -are a little dimmed, and the sweet laughter is a little cracked; but -I am not sorry to have seen you thus. For I have loved no woman truly -save you alone; and I am not sorry. Farewell. (_He bends over and -reverently kisses her fingers. Then she leaves as quietly as a cloud -passes._) - -FALSTAFF - -(_he goes back to the chair by the fire and sits at ease_) Lord, Lord, -how subject we old men are to the vice of lying.... Yet it was not -all a lie;--but what a coil over a youthful greensickness ’twixt a -lad and a wench more than forty years syne.... I might have had money -of her for the asking, yet I am glad I did not; which is a parlous -sign and smacks of dotage.... Were it not a quaint conceit, a merry -tickle-brain of Fate that this mountain of malmsey were once a delicate -stripling with apple cheeks and a clean breath, smelling of civit and -as mad for love, I warrant you as any Amadis of them all? For, if a -man were to speak truly, I did love her. I had special marks of the -pestilence. Not all the flagons and apples in the universe might have -comforted me; I was wont to sigh like a leaky bellows; to weep like a -wench that is lost of her granddam; to lard my speech with the fagends -of ballads like a man milliner; and did indeed indite sonnets, cazonets -and what not of mine own elaboration.... And Moll did carry them, -plump, brown-eyed Moll that hath married Hodge, the tanner and reared -her tannikins and died long since. - -Lord, Lord, what did I not write (_He draws a paper from the packet and -leaning over deciphers the faded writing by the fire light._) - - Have pity, Sylvia! Cringing at thy door - Entreats with dolorous cry and clamoring - That mendicant who quits thee nevermore; - Now winter chills the world, and no birds sing - In any woods, yet as in wanton Spring - He follows thee; and never will have done - Though nakedly he die, from following - Whither thou leadest. Canst thou look upon - His woes and laugh to see a goddess’ son - Of wide dominion, and in strategy - More strong than Jove, more wise than Solomon, - Inept to combat thy severity? - Have pity Sylvia! And let Love be one - Among the folk that bear thee company. - -Is it not the very puling speech of your true lover? Faith, Adam Cupid, -hath forsworn my fellowship long since; he hath no score chalked up -against him at the Boar’s Head Tavern; or if he have, I doubt not the -next street beggar might discharge it. - -And she hath commended me to her children as a very gallant gentleman -and a true knight. Jove that sees all hath a goodly commodity of mirth; -I doubt not his sides ache at times, as if they had conceived another -wine-god. “_Among the folk that bear thee company_” Well well, it was a -goodly rogue that wrote it, though the verse runs but lamely! A goodly -rogue. - -(_BARDOLPH steals back into the room._) - -BARDOLPH - -Well, Sir John? - -FALSTAFF - -(_He addresses BARDOLPH. As the speech goes on BARDOLPH’S jaw drops -lower and lower as he gapes his astonishment_) Look you, he might have -lived cleanly and forsworn sack, he might have been a gallant gentleman -and begotten grandchildren and had a quiet nook at the ingleside to -rest his old bones; but he is dead long since. He might have writ -himself _armigero_ in many a bill or obligation or quittance or what -not; he might have left something behind him save unpaid tavern bills; -he might have heard cases, harried poachers and quoted old saws; and -slept in his own family chapel through sermons yet unwrit, beneath his -presentment, done in stone, and a comforting bit of Latin but he is -dead long since. - -(_MISTRESS QUICKLY too steals in._) - -MISTRESS QUICKLY - -Well, Sir John? - -FALSTAFF - -(_Continues his meditation, unaware of them_) Zooks, I prate like a -death’s head. A thing done hath an end, God have mercy on us all! And -I will read no more of the rubbish. (_He casts the papers into the -heart of the fire; they blaze up and he watches them burn to the last -spark. Then he gives himself a mighty shake_) A cup of sack to purge -the brain! And I will go sup with Doll Tearsheet. - -(_The curtain falls quickly, it also is happy the play hath ended._) - -[Illustration] - - - - -TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: - - - Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. - - Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. - - Archaic or variant spelling has been retained. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POOR JACK *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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