But I’d like to have my hair all fixed with my nice ribbon an’ be dressed up.
Enter Mr. Mulligan who stands at the back listening
Katie:
Oh, Rosie, let’s go an’ fix us all up now, just to see how nice we can make us look, just as if it were that Dannie’s comin’ home tonight. That’ll be fun. [Claps hands and dances about.]
Rosie:
Sure, an’ it’ll make us forget that we can’t hang up our stockings tonight. An’ I don’t want the doll very bad, Katie.
Katie:
Indeed you don’t if dear Dannie comes home so he sees us. Come on. [They take hold of hands and run off merrily.]
Mulligan:
[coming up to center, shaking head and sighing] Poor little dears, what a pity it is, now, that they’ll not be gittin’ a single bit of a Christmas prisint. [Sits.] But what’s a poor workin’ man like mesilf to do whin Christmas comes round an’ he hasn’t a cint left? Sure, there’s no father that’s wantin’ to do better by his childer than I do, but with all of Dannie’s ixpenses I’m clean broke.