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
Taig O'Harragha | BOTH CHIMNEYDarby Melody | SWEEPS
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.) Whatbrought 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 decentappearance, rinsing my head and my features in a tin can of water.
Taig: Is it long till the coach will be passing by thecross-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 fromthe 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 thecountry clear out their own chimneys with a bush under and a bushoverhead.
Darby: I travel only gentlemen's houses.
Taig: There does be more of company in the streets than you'dfind on the bare road.
Darby: It isn't easy get company for a person has but two emptyhands.
Taig: Wealth to be in the family it is all one nearly withhaving a grip of it in your own palm.
Darby: I wish to the Lord it was the one thing.
Taig: You to know what I know—
Darby: What is it that you know?
Taig: It is dealing out cards through the night time I will befrom this out, and making bets on racehorses and fighting-cocksthrough all the hours of the day.
Darby: I would sooner to be sleeping in feathers and to do nohand's turn at all, day or night.
Taig: If I came paddling along through every place this day andthe road hard under my feet, it is likely I will have my choice wayleaving it.
Darby: How is that now?
Taig: A horse maybe and a car or two horses, or maybe to go inthe coach, and I myself sitting alongside the man came in it.
Darby: Is it that he is takin