"A SCRAPE O' THE PEN."

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15743, 30 August 1915, Page 9

"A SCRAPE O' THE PEN."

GRAHAM .MOFFAT'S SCOTTISH JM.AVERS.

"A Scrape o' t ie l'en" i.-, to bo produced at tin: Tlr.'atro Royal to-morrow evening, when those popufar players Mr and Ml 3 (I ruhatii Moil'u t will appear n their delight! ill p'.uy <f Scottish tarni iilc. The play is centered round 1 lie old Scotcn marriage ceremony, and the certificate handed each parly was known as "A Si.ru po <>' the Pen . '1 he .story open-, in rho kitchen ot Honeyneuk Farm. Seven years belore the opening of the p'ay. Alec, the sou oM Mat ill.l ami T.cez'e lngl:, marries -lea-.: 1 ,r>tlier. a new 111 a d at the farm, anil 1111 oiediateiy leaves lor South Africa. .lean hearing after his departure that he lias betrayed Fppie OlipnmU, teai.s i:p her copy el .1 .scrape <>' -he pen ami a h!i!e later marries JI ugh Meri::ios ilie farm man-

S while. litlle Fppic, Alec's cllll'i new motherless. is brought up ly .Iran m ignorance <n lit r mother's disurace. Later AUv.s I'iv. k-.>t, liook -•<■ ttt:■ 111 iii Ins W|).v ol tiic mairi.nio certificate is ■stolen I'roiu iiim in Africa. ln;t ihe P'pco ol paper Ik valueless to t!io thief is discarded I>y iimi. only to bo picked up by M>ineono who knous the okl people and returns it to the farm MaUlia st'iuls l-.-r .loan. hiii. .Mio inters bees fore;:veii<'s--. wnieh is -ranted hv tlie old man. \lec, ! t ,'v.t. returns tmex|>ceie,l! v ta t cn X( . n . lonr's mornin.; nnd is >an's first footer. .After a '■'onuv m nun Alec, is taken up to .see bis hY,; O -i,| f .; o ojiin<T )>e,io'Full\, and tiie s'i;ht n| hei- innocent lace, decide;; him on his; ourse of net:on. and he burns his copv (: f the certificate as ih.-- f-urtain falls mi a happy Viousohold. .Tnan'.s limsband r.evcr leaniine; lj i 0 lnil ] K hn.s in tins instance written <s--iinlliin" more trim to life :! i, n „ •■Runt v." The P.ox [Van i.s at ihe I'.r'stnl.