Sabina Silver. I think Paddy gets them cheap.
Charlie Ward. He gets them cheaper than another man would, anyhow.
Paddy Cockfight. He's the best cock I ever saw before or since. Believe me, I made no mistake when I pitched on him.
Tommy the Song. I don't care what you think of him. I'll back the red; it's he has the lively eye.
Molly the Scold. Andy Farrell had an old cock, and it bent double like himself, and all the feathers flittered out of it, but I hold you he'd leather both your red and your speckled cock together. I tell ye, boys, that was the cock!
[Uproarious shouts and yells heard outside.
Charlie Ward. Those free drinks of yours, Paul, is playing the devil with them. Do you hear them now and every roar out of them? They're putting the cocks astray. [He takes out a cock.] Sure they think it's thunder.
Molly the Scold. There's not a man of them outside there now but would be ready to knock down his own brother.
Tommy the Song. He wouldn't know him to knock him down. They're all blind. I never saw the like of it.