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Title: New Irish Comedies

Author: Lady Augusta Gregory

Release Date: March 28, 2004 [EBook #11749]

Language: English

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Produced by Juliet Sutherland and Robert Prince

New Comedies

By Lady Gregory

The Bogie Men--The Full Moon--Coats
Darmer's Gold--McDonough's Wife

COPYRIGHT 1913
BY LADY GREGORY

TO THE RT. HON. W.F. BAILEY
COUNSELLOR, PEACEMAKER, FRIEND

ABBEY THEATRE, 1913.

CONTENTS

THE BOGIE MEN
THE FULL MOON
COATS
DAMER'S GOLD
MCDONOUGH'S WIFE
NOTES

THE BOGIE MEN

PERSONS

_Taig O'Harragha_ | BOTH CHIMNEY
_Darby Melody_ | SWEEPS

THE BOGIE MEN

_Scene: A Shed near where a coach stops. Darby comes in. Has a tin
can of water in one hand, a sweep's bag and brush in the other. He
lays down bag on an empty box and puts can on the floor. Is taking a
showy suit of clothes out of bag and admiring them and is about to
put them on when he hears some one coming and hurriedly puts them
back into the bag_.

_Taig: (At door.)_ God save all here!

_Darby:_ God save you. A sweep is it? _(Suspiciously.)_ What
brought you following me?

_Taig:_ Why wouldn't I be a sweep as good as yourself?

_Darby:_ It is not one of my own trade I came looking to meet with.
It is a shelter I was searching out, where I could put on a decent
appearance, rinsing my head and my features in a tin can of water.

_Taig:_ Is it long till the coach will be passing by the
cross-road beyond?

_Darby:_ Within about a half an hour they were telling me.

_Taig:_ There does be much people travelling to this place?

_Darby:_ I suppose there might, and it being the high road from
the town of Ennis.

_Taig:_ It should be in this town you follow your trade?

_Darby:_ It is not in the towns I do be.

_Taig:_ There's nothing but the towns, since the farmers in the
country clear out their own chimneys with a bush under and a bush
overhead.

_Darby:_ I travel only gentlemen's houses.

_Taig:_ There does be more of comp