The following text is adapted from Lady Gregory’s 1904 play Spreading the News.
Tom Reed and Martin Doyle have encountered each other at the village market.
TOM: It isn’t to the market I came myself, but up to the Long Field I’m going, where I have a contract for the hay. We’ll get a share of it into tramps [drying stacks] to-day.
MARTIN: 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.
TOM: If it didn’t itself, Martin, 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.
Tom Reed and Martin Doyle have encountered each other at the village market.
TOM: It isn’t to the market I came myself, but up to the Long Field I’m going, where I have a contract for the hay. We’ll get a share of it into tramps [drying stacks] to-day.
MARTIN: 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.
TOM: If it didn’t itself, Martin, 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.