SCENE: A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room. A desk and a chair in the middle. An hour-glass on a bracket near the door. A creepy stool near it. Some benches. The WISE MAN sitting at his desk.
Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, James Matthew Barrie, Anthony Trollope, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Maud Lindsay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, Olive Thorne Miller, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond McAlden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, François Coppée, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Elbridge S. Brooks, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Anton Chekhov, Armando Palacio Valdés, André Theuriet, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marcel Prévost, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, F. L. Stealey, Kate Upson Clark, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Willis Boyd Allen, Edgar Wallace, Georg Schuster, Harrison S. Morris, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, Vernon Lee, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, William Francis Dawson, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Christopher North, Susan Coolidge, Oliver Bell Bunce, Phillips Brooks, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Dinah Maria Mulock, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary Austin, James S. Park, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, C.s. Stone, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, Charles Mackay, Harriet F. Blodgett, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Tudor Jenks, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry Vaughan, Christian Burke, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Meredith Nicholson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, James Selwin Tait, Booth Tarkington, Evaleen Stein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frank Samuel Child, Samuel McChord Crothers, Sarah Orne Jewett, Georgianna M. Bishop, Sarah P. Doughty, John Punnett Peters, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret Sidney, Nell Speed, Laura Elizabeth Richards, Arthur Conan Doyle, Willa Cather, Ralph Henry Barbour, Cyrus Townsend Brady, Mary Stewart Cutting, William Douglas O'Connor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ruth McEnery Stuart, S. Weir Mitchell, John Leighton, W. H. H. Murray, Alice Duer Miller, Ellis Parker Butler & Washington Irving
Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. H. Murray, Washington Irving, L.M. Montgomery, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson & William Butler Yeats
Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walter Scott, James Matthew Barrie, Anthony Trollope, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson & William Butler Yeats
Louis Stevenson, Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, James Matthew Barrie, Anthony Trollope, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke & Nora A. Smith
Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, James Matthew Barrie, Anthony Trollope, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand & Max Brand
Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walter Scott, James Matthew Barrie, Anthony Trollope, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells & Walter Crane
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walter Scott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Thomas Hardy, Sara Teasdale, William Thackeray, James Montgomery, Clement Clarke Moore & Charles Kingsley
O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, James Matthew Barrie, Anthony Trollope, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Maud Lindsay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, Olive Thorne Miller, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond McAlden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, François Coppée, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Elbridge S. Brooks, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Anton Chekhov, Armando Palacio Valdés, André Theuriet, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marcel Prévost, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, F. L. Stealey, Kate Upson Clark, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Willis Boyd Allen, Edgar Wallace, Georg Schuster, Harrison S. Morris, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, Vernon Lee, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, William Francis Dawson, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Christopher North, Susan Coolidge, Oliver Bell Bunce, Phillips Brooks, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Dinah Maria Mulock, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary Austin, James S. Park, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, C.s. Stone, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, Charles Mackay, Harriet F. Blodgett, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Tudor Jenks, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry Vaughan, Christian Burke, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Meredith Nicholson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, James Selwin Tait, Booth Tarkington, Evaleen Stein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frank Samuel Child, Samuel McChord Crothers, Sarah Orne Jewett, Georgianna M. Bishop, Sarah P. Doughty, John Punnett Peters & Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Walter Scott, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anthony Trollope, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clement Moore, Edward Berens, William Dean Howells, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson & William Butler Yeats
Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, James Matthew Barrie, Anthony Trollope, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Maud Lindsay & Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Leo Tolstoy, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walter Scott, James Matthew Barrie, The Brothers Grimm, George MacDonald, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson & William Butler Yeats
Louis Stevenson, Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, James Matthew Barrie, Anthony Trollope, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, L.M. Montgomery, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke & Nora A. Smith
