BIDDY, alone.
Coming then!—Sure it’s making up the room I am with all speed, and the bed not made after all!—(Throws up the press-bed.)—But to live in this here house, girl or boy, one had need have the lives of nine cats and the legs of forty.
{Exit.
SCENE III.
The Kitchen of the Inn.
Miss FLORINDA GALLAGHER and CHRISTY GALLAGHER.
Boys and Men belonging to the Band, in the back Scene.
Christy. (to the band) The girl’s coming as fast as possible to get yees your dinners, jantlemen, and sorrow better dinner than she’ll give you: you’ll get all instantly—(To Miss GALLAGHER) And am not I telling you, Florry, that the drum-major did not come in yet at all, but went out through the town, to see and get a billet and bed for the sick man they’ve got.