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Rh You have plenty to do, it is food and drink you have to bring to the house. The woman that is coming home is not coming with empty hands; you would not have an empty house before her. [To the ] Maybe you don’t know, ma'am, that my son is going to be married to-morrow.

It is not a man going to his marriage that I look to for help.

[to ]. Who is she, do you think, at all?

. You did not tell us your name yet, ma’am.

. Some call me the Poor Old Woman, and there are some that call me Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.

. I think I knew some one of that name, once. Who was it, I wonder? It must have been some one I knew when I was a boy. No, no; I remember, I heard it in a song.

[who is standing in the doorway]. They are wondering that there were songs made for me; there have been many songs made for me. I heard one on the wind this morning.