Beacon On The Rock Toms Lines

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Act 1 scene 1

Joe: the mines were all closing in Cornwall. So, my ancestors, two brothers, came over. To work the mines. I can’t imagine.

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When we left Cornwall, it was spring

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🎵Viggo: which ways is the camp?

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🎵the mine

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Craig: nothing, but they’re rock, Grey sky… Like I never left Scotland

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It be cold brother

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Craig: no appreciation for the true tongue of the Bonnie Prince

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Neither of thee is appreciating where we are. You are far away from the sheep and your father’s fields, Craig. Though you still smell of them. And Joe, thee could deal with some civilizin.

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Joe: and copper and iron ore. Thee heard the skipper.

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Enough iron in the rock to pull his compass off. Aye. There’s your bread and butter, Craig McLaughlin. Thee Just have to learn the pic and hammer, and here’s to cousin Jacks that can learn thee the mine and trade.

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Act one, scene two:

(Crowd leaves)

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Let’s go seek for the boarding house

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Joe: not much of a town in’t

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And he’s really saying “ Not many girls around” in’t.

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Act 1 scene 5 Shelter

Craig: you up for a walk?

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Tom: I be going, if you’re passing the store

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Craig: did you see her at church yesterday with her wee hat sitting there upon her head?

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And where else might she wear it?

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Craig: did you see her at church yesterday with her wee hat sitting there upon her head?

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And where else might she wear it?

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Craig: leastways it’s not the ill bred, Scott, who’s following after a filly tied to another man saddle

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What’s that?

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Craig: leastways it’s not the ill bred, Scott, who’s following after a filly tied to another man saddle

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What’s that?

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Craig : but would throw my own sweet, manly self in her way…

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The woman’s engaged Joe. That means she’s going to be married. (Take a pause.) when Thee finds a tongue, we’ll talk.

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Craig: working open backed like there wasn’t a loose bit of dirt in the whole mine

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They’re loggers, just here for the summer while the camps are down

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Craig: working open backed like there wasn’t a loose bit of dirt in the whole mine

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They’re loggers, just here for the summer while the camps are down

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Joe: like he’s born and bred to the miners life

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Well, maybe some Cornishmen walk-through McLachlan Clint, nine months or so afore he was born…

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Craig: working open backed like there wasn’t a loose bit of dirt in the whole mine

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They’re loggers, just here for the summer while the camps are down

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Joe: like he’s born and bred to the miners life

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Well, maybe some Cornishmen walk-through McLachlan Clint, nine months or so afore he was born…

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Craig: but there’s not a Cornish Man living they could charm my mother

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Oh there’s ways-sheep noises

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Craig: She’s putting up a good fight, but she’s weakening to me

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So, you up for a walk? C’mon, in 20 minutes we can walk the whole of Main Street four or five times

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Craig: She’s putting up a good fight, but she’s weakening to me

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So, you up for a walk? C’mon, in 20 minutes we can walk the whole of Main Street four or five times

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Joe: Huh?

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You don’t wander like that in the mine, ya hear? Back to the real world , little brother, ya hear me?

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Joe: Huh?

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You don’t wander like that in the mine, ya hear? Back to the real world , little brother, ya hear me?

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Joe: Aye

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So is it that I-talian girl ye be wool gathering about? I remind you the Italian girl is marrying another I talian

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Joe: it’s like I be thinking, I’m not doing what I’m meant to do

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So you be learning your letters, learn to read and write and ye can work topside, books, whatever.

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Joe: maybe I don’t want to stay with the mine at all.

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There’s got to make a livin’

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Joe: maybe I don’t want to stay with the mine at all.

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There’s got to make a livin’

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Joe: I know

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And how does thee plan on doing that?

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Joe: I know

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And how does thee plan on doing that?

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Joe: I don’t know

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You’ve got work in a mine that won’t be worked out for a long time. Ye got a decent clean shelter, three meals a day and of ye work hard ye might have more

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Joe: maybe I don’t want to stay with the mine at all.

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There’s got to make a livin’

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Joe: I know

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And how does thee plan on doing that?

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Joe: I don’t know

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You’ve got work in a mine that won’t be worked out for a long time. Ye got a decent clean shelter, three meals a day and of ye work hard ye might have more

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Joe: that’s what my mind wanders on.

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Can’t have it all over night little brother

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Joe: that’s what my mind wanders on.

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Can’t have it all over night little brother

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Joe: I want a house of my own

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Too late for a walk I suppose. After the morning meal maybe.

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Rowdy: you get talked to in Italian you probably been sweared at.

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No look around thee, brother. London had it musicals, new York had its bar rooms. Here thee has a mud street and a few bottles of whiskey being passed between gentlemen, like home.