Saints And Sinners

Authors: Edna O'brien

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“Big lakes, little lakes, turloughs that filled up in the rain, and rivers a reddish brown from the iron in the soil. Curly didn't pay much heed to scenery, he was used to it. But he did notice the mist through the window when he got up early, everything blurry, the pots and the wheelbarrows in the backyard, the magpies lined up on the chimney stacks, and the cat, pleased with herself after her fill of mice and bats in the night — black night, people called it. That cat was run over and got rena...med Lucky to Be Alive and had a ridge in her tail, like a ponytail. Felim, Curly's boss, collected him every morning and brought him to the hardware shop, in the other town, eight miles away. Riding along, he'd see the mist lift and it was like seeing a grand lady lifting the veil of her hat, gradual, gradual, but he did not say so to his boss or he'd be jeered at.
He disliked his boss. I dislike this man, he'd say, sitting as far apart from him as he possibly could. Curly often confabbed with himself in private.MoreLess Read More Read Less