RIDERS TO THE SEA
MAURYA
If it wasn’t found itself, that wind is raising the sea, and there was a star up against the moon, and it rising in the night. If it was a hundred horses, or a thousand horses you had itself, what is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
BARTLEY
Working at the halter, to Cathleen.
Let you go down each day, and see the sheep aren’t jumping in on the rye, and if the jobber comes you can sell the pig with the black feet if there is a good price going.
MAURYA
How would the like of her get a good price for a pig?
BARTLEY
To Cathleen.
If the west wind holds with the last bit of the moon let you and Nora get up weed enough for another cock for the kelp. It’s hard set we’ll be from this day with no one in it but one man to work.
MAURYA
It’s hard set we’ll be surely the day you’re
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