New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
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hide the bag or the brush.
_Taig:_ There you are going on again. Is it to the customers in your shops you will be giving out that it was my lot to go through the world as a sweep? _Darby:_ Customers and shops! Will you stop your funning? Let you quit mocking and making a sport of me! That is very bad acting behaviour. _Taig:_ Striving to blacken my face again at the time I had it washed pure white. You surely have a heart of marble. _Darby:_ What way at all can you be putting such a rascally say out of your mouth? I'll take no more talk from you, I to be twenty-two degrees lower than the Hottentots! _Taig:_ If you are my full cousin Dermot Melody I'll make you quit talking of soot! _Darby:_ I'll take no more talk from yourself! _Taig:_ Have a care now! _Darby:_ Have a care yourself! _(Each gives the other a push. They stumble and fall, sitting facing one another. Darby's hat falls off.)_ _Taig:_ Is it _you_ it is? |
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