also. Mary Byrne is asleep against the ditch.

SARAH -- to Michael, with pleased excite-
ment. -- Go over, now, to the bundle beyond,
and you'll find a kind of a red handkerchief
to put upon your neck, and a green one for
myself.
MICHAEL -- getting them. -- You're after
spending more money on the like of them.
Well, it's a power we're losing this time, and
we not gaining a thing at all. (With the
handkerchief.) Is it them two?
SARAH. It is, Michael. (She takes one
of them.) Let you tackle that one round under
your chin; and let you not forget to take your
hat from your head when we go up into the
church. I asked Biddy Flynn below, that's
after marrying her second man, and she told
me it's the like of that they do.
[Mary yawns, and turns over in her
sleep.
SARAH -- with anxiety. -- There she is
waking up on us, and I thinking we'd have the
job done before she'd know of it at all.


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MICHAEL. She'll be crying out now, and
making game of us, and saying it's fools we