The First Distiller
By Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.
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The First Distiller - Leo Tolstoy
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The First Distiller
Published by Good Press, 2019
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EAN 4057664597588
Table of Contents
CHARACTERS
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
ACT VI
CHARACTERS
Table of Contents
A PEASANT.
A NEIGHBOUR.
FOUR VILLAGE ELDERS.
OLD WOMEN, WOMEN, GIRLS AND LADS.
THE CHIEF OF THE DEVILS.
HIS SECRETARY.
A DANDY IMP.
THE OFFICIALS' IMP.
THE PEASANTS' IMP.
SENTINELS, DOORKEEPERS AND IMPS.
THE FIRST DISTILLER
A COMEDY
ACT I
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PEASANT [ploughing. Looks up] It's noon. Time to unharness. Gee up, get along! Fagged out? Poor old beast! One more turn and back again, that will be the last furrow, and then dinner. It was a good idea to bring that chunk of bread with me. I'll not go home, but sit down by the well and have a bite and a rest, and Peggy can graze awhile. Then, with God's help, to work again, and the ploughing will be done in good time.
Enter Imp; hides behind a bush.
IMP. See what a good fellow he is! Keeps calling on God. Wait a bit, friend—you'll be calling on the Devil before long! I'll just take away his chunk. He'll miss it before long, and will begin to hunt for it. He'll be hungry, and then he'll swear and call on the Devil.
Takes the chunk of bread and sits down behind the bush watching to see what the Peasant will do.
PEASANT [unharnesses the horse] With God's blessing! [Lets the