The Playboy of the
PHILLY.
Well, that lad’s a puzzle-the-world.
JIMMY.
He’d beat Dan Davies’ circus, or the holy missioners making sermons on the villainy of man. Try him again, Philly.
PHILLY.
Did you strike golden guineas out of solder, young fellow, or shilling coins itself?
CHRISTY.
I did not, mister, not sixpence nor a farthing coin.
JIMMY.
Did you marry three wives maybe? I’m told there’s a sprinkling have done that among the holy Luthers of the preaching north.
CHRISTY, shyly.
I never married with one, let alone with a couple or three.
PHILLY.
Maybe he went fighting for the Boers, the like of the man beyond, was judged to be hanged,
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