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Three Medical Students
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In vein of Shakespeare ,
Dramatis Personae
Richard, Thomas, Henry-s^Three Medical Students.
Michael O’Rourke—A drunk Irishman.
ACT I.
\ Scene I—Henry’s room al college.
Richard—I say, fellowfs, we need anothef body to dissect.. The last
stiff we have been working on, is about used pp. When
are we going to get another one? .
Thomas—A h! that’s what I have been wondering about myself.
Henry—Wondering about! Why don’t you look Ground a little^'
I have been" to every hospital in th£ city. Tve searched
all the wharves and back rooms of saloons, but no stiffs
could I find-. I t^ll you we are in a fix.
Thomas—Aha;! I nave it. I'wo miles out of town on the Oak
road is a cemetery. We’ll ^hither“ away to that. We’ll
arm ourselves with pick and shovel a^d dig^up our treasure.
Richard and Henry together—Hooray! Viva la Thomas!
SCENE II.
Oak Ridge Graveyard.
On the road passing the stone wall of the cemetery.
Michael O’Rourke (stumbling along the road.) “Ah, be gob, ’tis a
foine nicht this is, be jabers. Ah! that (hie) wine. It gets
to me (hie) head too quick, you see, so it does. I daren’t
begone home in this fix. Shure an’ ’tis only. last wake
that I went home with a b|t of a drap in me, and says
I to Bridget, says I, “it’s your health I’ve been drinki^’, ”
says I. “It’s my health you’ve been drinkin’, is
it?” says she. “Sure and it’s your own health you’d better
have been drinkin’,”- says she. “When I get through with
ye it’s a great need you’ll have fer health,” says she. And
oh! what: a batin’. Me old head’s sapr yet. I’ll lie tne-
self down by yon stone wall for a wee bit of a nap.