New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
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go dig a pit in the graveyard, as it is short till we'll be
stretched there with the want of food. _Darby:_ Food is it? There is nothing at this time against me eating my bit of a herring. _(Seizes it and takes a bite.)_ _Taig:_ Give me a divide of it. _Darby:_ Give me a drop of your own porter so, is in the bottle. There need be no dread on you now, of you being no match for your grand man. _Taig:_ That is so. _(Drinks.)_ I'll strive no more to fit myself for high quality relations. I am free from patterns of high up cousins from this out. I'll be a pattern to myself. _Darby:_ I am well content being free of you, the way you were pictured to be. I declare to my goodness, the name of you put terror on me through the whole of my lifetime, and your image to be clogging and checking me on every side. _Taig:_ To be thinking of you being in the world was a holy terror to myself. I give you my word you came through my sleep the same as a scarecrow or a dragon. _Darby:_ It is great things I will be doing from this out, we two having nothing to cast up against one another. To be quit of Timothy the bogie and to get Taig for a comrade, I'm as proud as the Crown |
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