The Snow Man:
a Metrical Play in One Act:
by Laurence Housman

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CHARACTERS.

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Scene:—A poor peasant dwelling, barely furnishedwith articles of the roughest description, a tressle-table, twobenches,—a large one serving as a window-seat, and a smallerone standing by the hearth,—a wooden chair, a spinning wheel,a large bread pan, a shelf containing household crockery, andon the inner wall of the ingle a few pots and pans hangingon the wall. The room is wide and low; to the left is a deephooded fireplace with containing walls on either side ofit,—to one side a bread oven, to the other a cubby-bed withdoors; opposite to the fireplace is a door leading to thewoodshed. The house door is at the back rather to the right;in its left a long low window extends almost to a line withthe fireplace. In the right hand corner stands a large chest.The roof is of heavy beams gray with smoke, and between themshows an inner surface of thatch, the walls are of blue plastermarked by mildew, with patches here and there where the plasterhas peeled off. It is winter and daylight is drawing in.Outside the world is white with snow. A peasant-woman movesto and fro with quick dogged pace. The pace of a hard workertired but always pushed for time. She takes black bread out ofthe oven, lays it out on the table, cuts off two pieces, andputs the remainder into the bread-pan. Then she takes down thegarments from before the fire, presses them with a heavy