The Copperhead

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Excerpt from The Copperhead: A Drama in Four ActsOne day my boy who was beginning playwright and had a libretto in collaboration to his credit as well as the precepts of many tiresome talks from his father as part of his equipment, came home from the Texas border where he had been with the New York calvary in Squadron A. I asked him to read the play and tell me what was the matter with it. He was properly modest in advancing his opinion, but characteristically youthful in its expression. His first line was: It seems to me you ought to con sume some of your own smoke. We talk some what cryptically but that speech was unintelligible. I mean, he added, you ought to follow some of the rules you have given me. You've always said, 'in playwriting, don't talk about it, do it.' Now all the interesting things, or at least the things that stir me in that play are things that you talk about things that happened forty years before in the Civnl War. I don't know enough about the game to advise you in any retaliating fashion, but if the theatre will stand for a division of that play into two epochs, one during the Civil War, and the other at the time of Landis' book, I think it would make a drama.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.