“It was the talk of the country, he said, the skills young Polish boys brought to Ireland.”
The two men who had come to the farmhouse consulted one another, not saying anything, only nodding and gesturing. Then they gave a price for painting the outside walls of the house and the crippled man said it was too much. He quoted a lesser figure, saying that had been the cost the last time. The men who had come looking for work said nothing. The tall one hitched up his trousers. “We’ll split the difference if that’s the way of it,” the crippled man said.
He’d had whiskey enough, she said when he asked for more, and nothing further was said in the kitchen. When they had eaten she got him to his bed, but an hour later he was shouting and she went to him. She thought it was a dream, but he said it was his legs. She gave him aspirins, and whiskey, because when he had both the pains would go. “Come in and keep me warm,” he whispered, and she said no.
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