New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
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_Darby:_ I saw nothing so plentiful as soot. There is not the
equal of it nourishing a garden. It would turn every crop blue, being so good. _Taig: (Weeping.)_ It is a very unkind thing to go drawing chimneys down on me and soot, and you having all that ever was! _Darby:_ Little enough I have or ever had. _Taig:_ To be casting up my trade against me, I being poor and hungry, and you having coins and tokens from all the goldpits of the world. _Darby:_ I wish I ever handled a coin of gold in my lifetime. _Taig:_ To speak despisingly, not pitiful. And I thinking the chimney sweeping would be forgot and not reproached to me, if you have handled the fooleries and watches of the world, that you don't know the end of your riches! _Darby:_ I am maybe getting your meaning wrong, your tongue being a little hard and sharp because you are Englified, but I am without new learnments and so I speak flat. _Taig:_ You to have the millions of King Solomon, you have no right to be putting reflections on me! I would never behave that way, and housefuls to fall into my hand. _Darby:_ You are striving to put ridicule on me and to make a fool of me. That is a very unseemly thing to do! I that did not ask to go |
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