The Building Fund: A Comedy in Three Acts

Excerpt from The Building Fund: A Comedy in Three Acts
Scene: A large, untidy farin kitchen. Door into yard at back. Another door 07 i right into room. Loud knocking at a distance. Grogan discovered. He peeps zjito the yard.
Grogan. The collectors for the new chapel! God direct me the best way to avoid them! Moves about uneasily, pauses, returns. and peeps out again. Speaks softly through room door?) Whist there, girl! Dont open the hall-door! Be off into the garden and weed the onion-bed. Knockingrepeated?) Im afraid its no use! Theyll come round to the back when they cant manage at the front. But its a mean thing to give in without a blow, so Ill make tracks into the back bedroom.
O'Callaghan. We might be rapping at the front door till Sunday.
MacSweeney. That's the only day the miserable creatures open it.
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