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A Tragedy as Played at Ryde	A
Macbreath Mr Henley	B
Macpuff Mr Terry	B
The Ghost	A
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ACT I	C
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TIME The day before the election	D
SCENE A Drummoyne tram running past a lunatic asylum	E
All present are Reform Leaguers and supporters of Macbreath	F
They seat themselves in the compartment	A
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MACBREATH Here I'll sit in the midst	A
Be large in mirth Anon we'll all be fitted	A
With Parliamentary seats	G
Voter approaches the door	H
There's blood upon thy face	I
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VOTER 'Tis Thompsons's then	J
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MACBREATH Is he thrown out How neatly we beguiled	A
The guileless Thompson Did he sign a pledge agreeing to retire	K
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VOTER Aye that he did	A
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MACBREATH Not so did I	C
Not on the doubtful hazard of a vote	A
By Ryde electors cherry pickers oafs	I
That drive their market carts at dread of night	A
And sleep all day Not on the jaundiced choice	I
Of folks who daily run their half a mile	L
Just after breakfast when the steamer hoots	I
Her warning to the laggard not on these	I
Relied Macbreath for if these rustics' choice	I
Had fall'n on Thompson I should still have claimed	A
A conference But hold Is Thompson out	A
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VOTER My lord his name is mud That I did for him	M
I paid my shilling and I cast my vote	A
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MACBREATH Thou art the best of all the shilling voters	I
Prithee be near me on election day	A
To see me smite Macpuff and now we shan't	B
Be long	N
Ghost of Thompson appears	I
What's this A vision	D
Thou canst not say I did it Never shake	O
Thy gory locks at me Run for some other seat	A
Let the woods hide thee Prithee chase thyself	P
The ghost of Thompson disappears and Macbreath revives himself	P
with a great effort	A
Leaguers all	Q
Mine own especial comrades of Reform	R
All amateurs and no professionals	I
So many worthy candidates I see	B
Alas that there are only ninety seats	I
Still let us take them all and Joe Carruthers	I
Ashton and Jimmy Hogue and all the rest	A
Will have to look for work Oh joyous day	A
To morrow's poll will make me M L A	S
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ACT II	C
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TIME Election day	A
SCENE Macbreath's committee rooms	I
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MACBREATH Bring me no more reports let them all fly	C
Till Labour's platform to Kyabram come	E
I cannot taint with fear How go the votes	I
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Enter first voter	T
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FIRST VOTER May it please my Lord	A
The cherry pickers' vote is two to one	D
Towards Macpuff and all our voters say	A
The ghost of Thompson sits in every booth	F
And talks of pledges	I
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MACBREATH What a polished liar	T
And yet the dead can vote Strikes him	M
What if it should be	B
Ghost of Thompson appears to him suddenly	B
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GHOST The Pledge The Pledge	U
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MACBREATH I say I never signed the gory pledge	U
Ghost disappears Enter a Messenger	T
Thou com'st to use thy tongue Thy story quickly	B
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MESSENGER Gracious my Lord	A
I should report that which I know I saw	I
But know not how to do it	A
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MACBREATH Well say on	V
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MESSENGER As I did stand my watch in Parliament	A
I saw the Labour platform come across	I
And join Kyabram Loans were overthrown	W
The numbers were reduced extravagance	I
Is put an end to by McGowan's vote	A
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MACBREATH The devil damn thee black thou cream faced loon	X
Where got'st thou this fish yarn	Y
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MESSENGER There's nearly forty	B
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MACBREATH Thieves fool	Z
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MESSENGER No members will be frozen out of work	A2
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MACBREATH Aye runs the story so Well well 'tis sudden	D
These are the uses of the politician	D
A few brief sittings and another contest	A
He hardly gets to know th' billiard tables	I
Before he's out	A
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Alarums and Harbour excursions enter Macpuff	P
at the head of a Picnic Party	B
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MACPUFF Now yield thee tyrant	A
By that fourth party which I once did form	R
I'll take thee to a picnic there to live	P
On windfall oranges	I
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MACBREATH Nay rather death	F
Death before picnic Lay on Macpuff	P
And damned be he who first cries Hold enough	P
They fight Macbreath is struck on the back of the head	A
by some blue metal from Pennant Hills Quarry He falls The referee	B
counts 'One two three eight nine ten out '	-
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MACPUFF Kind voters all and worthy gentlemen	B2
Who rallied to my flag today and made me	B
Member for Thompson from my soul I thank you	C2
There needs no trumpet blast for I can blow	D2
Like any trombone Prithee let us go	D2
Thanks to you all who shared this glorious day	A
Whom I invite to dance at Chowder Bay	A

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