Second Hag: Indeed he is no way humble, but looking for attendance on her, as if she was the youngest and the greatest in the world.
First Hag: It is not to humour her the Union men will, and they carrying her to where they will sink her into the ground, unless it might be McDonough would come back, and he having money in his hand, to bring in some keeners and some hired men.
Second Hag: He to come back at this time it is certain he will bring a fist-full of money.
First Hag: What makes you say that to be certain?
Second Hag: A troop of sheep-shearers that are on the west side of the fair, looking for hire from the grass farmers. I heard them laying down they met with McDonough at the big shearing at Cregroostha.
First Hag: What day was that?
Second Hag: This day week for the world.
First Hag: He has time and plenty to be back in Galway ere this.
Second Hag: Great dancing they had and a great supper at the time the shearing was at an end and the fleeces lodged in the big sacks. It is McDonough played his music through the night-time. It is what I heard them saying, "He went out of that place weightier than he went in."
First Hag: He is a great one to squeeze the pipes surely. There is no place ever he went into but he brought the whip out of it.