MURTAGH COSGAR
You will be going to the fair, if it was only to be
showing that, seemly face of yours. _(Going to the door, he calls)_
"Sally!" _(He turns to Martin Douras)_ I've a daughter still, Martin
Douras.
MARTIN DOURAS
You have, and I have a son.
MURTAGH COSGAR
What would you say to a match between them, Martin
Douras?
MARTIN DOURAS
I have nothing to say again it.
MURTAGH COSGAR
Then a match it will be.
_Sally comes in from yard_.
SALLY
If you fed that baste on honey, she'd turn on you. Cabbage I
gave her and got into trouble for it, and now she's gone and
trampled the bad potatoes till they're hardly worth the boiling.
I'll put the bush in the gap when I'm going out again, father.
MURTAGH COSGAR
Ay. Is that Cornelius Douras that's coming up the path?
SALLY
O faith it is. I'll get him to give me a hand with the trough.
_Cornelius comes in_.
CORNELIUS
Well, Murtagh Cosgar, a great and memorial day is ended.
May you live long to enjoy the fruits of it. Twenty years on the
first term, and the land is ours and our children's. I met the men.
MURTAGH COSGAR
Ours and our children's, ay. We've been making a
match between yourself and Sally.
CORNELIUS
Between me and Sally?
SALLY
Between Cornelius and myself?
MURTAGH COSGAR
Ay, shake hands on it now.
CORNELIUS
And tell me one thing, Murtagh Cosgar.
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