CHARACTERS.
Bernard O’Rielly.
Denny Burns.
Bridget O’Rielly.
Mary Ann Rebecca O’Rielly.
Scene.—Ordinary tenement house room. Stove, R. Table, C. Chairs by table. Bureau, L., and cot. Curtain rises, disclosing Bridget combing her hair at bureau.
Brid. Arrah, siven o’clock. Shure, it is time for Mary to arrive. But she’s late to-night. Shure, since she’s been workin’ in the playin’ card factory it’s too high-toned she has become to ride up town on the horse-car. It is on the back balcony av a truck that she rowls along. Hark, I guess that that is her footstep now. [Listens.
Door opens, and Mary enters, carrying lunch-box. Sets it on table.
Mary. Supper ready, mother?
Brid. Supper ready! It is not hungry yez are afther the ilegant lunch that I put up for yez?
Mary. Ah, what are you giving us? Call that a nice lunch! Ham and crackers! that’s a sweet tuck-out for a hard working girl, ain’t it?
Brid. That’ll do, miss. Perhaps yez would like charlotty ruse and banana fritters wid egg sauce. Any girl that don’t like ham and crackers is too fastidious to live.
Mary. Well, I don’t care; all the other girls have nice things to eat. It gives you away to the gang to see me with such a curbstone banquet.