AHe looks like someone who's been told he's got the best job he ever wanted,@ said Paddy.

  AIt's hard to imagine him staying [email protected]

  AAye lad, it sure is,@ he pulled back the curtains and peered out, Asun-up, they'll be sounding reveille [email protected] Davey grinned at the memory of his bugle-call rousing the street. AWhat yer want to do today? Carry [email protected]

  AI'll go into town first with some of this,@ Davey reached under the bed and extracted the chest.

  AI tell yer what lad, yer may be a mite too young to be acceptable to someone for changing that into cash. Leave it with yer Uncle Paddy, I'll go in and do the [email protected]

  ADo you think you're up to it Uncle Pad? I mean it's a long while since you've been [email protected]

  AArr, the air'll do me good. I'm sick of lying in here like a great fat cow chewing grass. You'd be far better off going up to Carnatic Hall and doin' like yer [email protected]

  AI thought you said that there was no [email protected]

  ANaw, I said that pound to a penny the Shaman'll get out. But the more the girl tells us the better off we'll be. Like the old man says it may help us when it comes to sortin' him out. And don't forget to tell her, if she changes her mind she's always welcome to stopover [email protected]

 
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