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''Scene as before. Later in the day. Jimmy comes in, slightly drunk.''

Pegeen! (Crosses to inner door.) Pegeen Mike! (Comes back again into the room.) Pegeen! (Philly comes in in the same state. To Philly.) Did you see herself?

I did not; but I sent Shawn Keogh with the ass-cart for to bear him home. (Trying cupboards, which are locked.) Well, isn't he a nasty man to get into such staggers at a morning wake; and isn't herself the divil's daughter for locking, and she so fussy after that young gaffer, you might take your death with drouth and none to heed you?

It's little wonder she'd be fussy, and he after bringing bankrupt ruin on the roulette man, and the trick-o'-the-loop man, and breaking the nose of the cockshot-man, and winning all in the sports