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1-1-1 (Rev 4/14/82) SETTING: ACT I SCENE 1 Exterior two story Pontipee house, bam and yard, in the Oregon mountains, 1850's. DOWN LEFT is a tree stump, up left is the front porch and part of the second story of the house. UP RIGHT is the entrance to the bam. There is a large pile of logs, sane of which are already cut. AT RISE: All the BROTHERS are in the yard doing various chores. ADAM chops wood; DANIEL and EPHRAIM carry chopped wood for storage. CALEB drops saddle fran hayloft to GIDEON, ect. MRS. McLANE (an elderly, cantankerous, housekeeper) enters fran the house with a freshly baked pie. She places it down left on a stump to cool, and fans it with her apron. Then SHE cautiously wends her way through the working brothers into the bam. As she enters the bam, DANIEL and EPHRAIM shift destinations and start carrying the chopped wood into the house. As they do so FRANK (who has been staring at the cooling pie), goes over to the pie and finally starts eating it. MRS. McCLANE canes out Of the bam carrying a basket of eggs. She starts to gingerly work her way back to the house when she notices DANIEL and EPHRAIM going into the house with more wood. SHE rushes into the house after them. The boys cane flying out of the house with MRS. McCLANE hot on their heels, screaming after them. MRS. McCLANE floors* My floors! look what you did to my floors. (TO ADAM) Mr. Pontipee! Adam Pontipee! ADAM (turning, revealing himself to us) YBSf Mrs. McClane. What1 s your gripe new?