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This is the opening of the play: Pegeen Mike is bustling about the public house, waiting for her father and proprietor to come home, when local farmer Shawn “Shaneen” Keough enters. He is desperate to marry her, and has permission from her father, and is now waiting for the approval of the local priest, but Pegeen has no interest in him. They discuss the various people they know who have broken the law and been punished, as well as what dangers might lurk beyond the door. Shaneen explains that
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PEGEEN — [slowly as she writes.] — Six yards of stuff for to make a yellow gown. A pair of lace boots with lengthy heels on them and brassy eyes. A hat is suited for a wedding-day. A fine tooth comb. To be sent with three barrels of porter in Jimmy Farrell's creel cart on the evening of the coming Fair to Mister Michael James Flaherty. With the best compliments of this
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