DEDICATION
| To you, W. B. YEATS, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade. |
| AUGUSTA GREGORY |
| Abbey Theatre, May 1, 1909. |
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Spreading the News | [1] |
| Hyacinth Halvey | [29] |
| The Rising of the Moon | [75] |
| The Jackdaw | [93] |
| The Workhouse Ward | [137] |
| The Travelling Man | [155] |
| The Gaol Gate | [173] |
| Music for the Songs in the Plays | [189] |
| Notes, &c. | [196] |