The Playboy of the Western World • Paragraph 426
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CHRISTY. _breaking out._—His one son, is it? May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. (_Looking out._) There he is now crossing the strands, and that the Lord God would send a high wave to wash him from the world.