One-Act Plays by Modern Authors

by Unknown

Tim Casey. There'd be a welcome for it with them surely! [Laughter.]

Mrs. Tully. And it is to the police Kitty Keary herself will be brought.

Mrs. Tarpey [rocking to and fro]. I wonder now who will take the expense of the wake for poor Jack Smith?

Bartley. The wake for Jack Smith!

Tim Casey. Why wouldn't he get a wake as well as another? Would you begrudge him that much?

Bartley. Red Jack Smith dead! Who was telling you?

Shawn Early. The whole town knows of it by this.

Bartley. Do they say what way did he die?

James Ryan. You don't know that yourself, I suppose, Bartley Fallon? You don't know he was followed and that he was laid dead with the stab of a hayfork?

Bartley. The stab of a hayfork!