SECOND MAN It's the graziers and shopkeepers that are putting a business head on this.
THIRD MAN If we're all on the one offer, we can settle it at the lawyer's.
FOURTH MAN
Sure it's settled for twenty years on the first-term rents.
FIFTH MAN There are some here that would let it go as high as twenty-three.
SIXTH MAN
What does Murtagh Cosgar say?
SOME OF THE MEN
Well take the word from him.
MARTIN DOURAS
He mentioned twenty years.
SECOND MAN
Not as a limit, surely?
OTHER MEN
We're not for any higher offer.
SECOND MAN Well, men, this is all I have to say. If you can get it for twenty, take it, and my blessing with it. But I want to be dealing with the Government, and not with landlords and agents. To have a straight bargain between myself and the Government, I'd put it up to twenty-three, ay, up to twenty-five years' purchase.