The Fruit of Toil

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Excerpt from The Fruit of Toil: And Other One-Act Plays It is night. The room is the ordinary living room of the poor. A door and one window open on the street. A door at left leads into kitchen and one at right into a sleeping-room. In the cen ter is a table, on which are the dishes left from the evening meal, near the end is a lamp - burning low. An old man sleeps in a chair by the table. His eyes are not closed - his mouth is open, and he breathes heavily, as if his sleep were not a calm one. On the ¿oor beside him is a crumpled newspaper. A child - a boy - of five years, enters in his night clothes. His eyes are wide - and he moves unsteadily, as if startled from a sound sleep. He goes close to the man, stares at him - then lays his hand on the old man's arm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.