Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading) by Steele Rudd (1868 - 1935)

This is a self-contained story-arc over eight chapters from the pages of Steele Rudd's book "Back At Our Selection". The Synopsis: After being a shy bachelor for a number of years, Dave (Dad Rudd's second eldest son) has finally got married. To a "Girl from Town" named "Lily White". When she first arrives at "Ruddville", she and Dave's sister Sarah get on wonderfully. But after some months, friction between the two young woman sets in, and Dave and Lily seek to have a separate house of their own on the extensive Rudd property. But Dad, though now a prosperous farmer, started out with his wife and children in a two-room settler's slab-hut, and has a notion ... exacerbated by tightfistedness ... that all young folk should start out their married life like that and work their way up. So he finds, demolishes, carts, and re-erects a forty-year-old abandoned shack for his son and daughter-in-law. They acquiesce to accepting it, and in time even become rather contented there. But soon, Dave's mother-in-law arrives for a visit, and cranky old Dad Rudd finally meets his nemesis. - Summary by Son of the Exiles<br /><br />Cast list:<br />Dad Rudd, Australian farmer - Patriarch of the Rudd clan: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8879" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Son of the Exiles</a><br />Mother Rudd, wife of Dad Rudd: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11790" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TJ Burns</a><br />Dave Rudd, son of Dad Rudd: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10789" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tomas Peter</a><br />Sarah Rudd, daughter of Dad Rudd: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11772" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Linda Olsen Fitak</a><br />Lily White, newly married to Dave: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11084" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Devorah Allen</a><br />Lily’s Mother - Dave's mother-in-law: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sonia</a><br />Joe Rudd, son of Dad Rudd: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11535" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nemo</a><br />Bill Rudd, son of Dad Rudd: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12500" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Foon</a><br />Barty Rudd, son of Dad Rudd: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12916" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Peter Musgrove</a><br />Jimmy Regan - Neighbour to the Rudds: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ToddHW</a><br />Young Regan - Neighbour to the Rudds: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10176" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Zoe Trang</a><br />Willie Wiley - Orphan boy adopted by one of Dad's neighbours: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12500" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Foon</a><br />Mary Murphy - Daughter of one of Dad's neighbours: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10614" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Leanne Yau</a><br />The Parson: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Wilson</a><br />Mrs Walker: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10087" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sandra Schmit</a><br />Building Contractor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Larry Wilson</a><br />Narrator: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6281" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Beth Thomas</a><br /><br />This project was finished during the March Challenge with the precious help of the following six volunteer editors (thank you all) :<br /><a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12506" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bhavya</a><br /><a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13072" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Campbell Schelp</a><br /><a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7079" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chuck Williamson</a><br /><a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12074" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">JayS</a><br /><a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">linny</a><br /><a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8051" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Maria Kasper</a>

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