In a khaki shirt and brass-buckled belt, a demobbed neighbour leaned against our jamb. My father jingled silver deep in both pockets and laughed when the big clicking rosary beads were produced.
'Did they make a papish of you over there?'
'O damn the fear! I stole them for you, Paddy, off the pope's dresser when his back was turned.'
'You could harness a donkey with them.'
Their laughter sailed above my head, a hoarse clamour, two big nervous birds dipping and lifting, making trial runs over a territory.
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