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The following text is adapted from Lady Gregory's 1904 play Spreading the News. Jack Smith and Bartley Fallon have encountered each other at the local fair.
JACK: It isn't to the fair I came myself, but up to the Five Acre Meadow I'm going, where I have a contract for the hay. We'll get a share of it into tramps [drying stacks] to-day.
BARTLEY: You will not get it into tramps to-day. The rain will be down on it by evening, and on myself too. It's seldom I ever started on a journey but the rain would come down on me before I'd find any place of shelter.
JACK: If it didn't itself, Bartley, it is my belief you would carry a leaky pail on your head in place of a hat, that way you'd not be without some cause of complaining.
JACK: It isn't to the fair I came myself, but up to the Five Acre Meadow I'm going, where I have a contract for the hay. We'll get a share of it into tramps [drying stacks] to-day.
BARTLEY: You will not get it into tramps to-day. The rain will be down on it by evening, and on myself too. It's seldom I ever started on a journey but the rain would come down on me before I'd find any place of shelter.
JACK: If it didn't itself, Bartley, it is my belief you would carry a leaky pail on your head in place of a hat, that way you'd not be without some cause of complaining.