4Ipat," said the
priest, "you're drunk, and I'm going to make you stop this right here. If
you ever get drunk again I'll turn you into a rat-do you mind that? If I don't
see you I'll know about it just the same, and into a rat you go. Now you mind
that."
Pat was very docile
that night, but the next evening he came home even worse drunk than ever,
kicked in the door, and Biddy dodged behind the table to defend herself.
"Don't be afraid,
darlint," said Pat, as he steadied himself before dropping into a chair,
"I'm not going to bate ye. I won't lay the weight of me finger on ye. I
want ye to be kind to me tonight, darlint, and to remember the days when we
was swatehearts and when ye loved me. You know his riverince said last night if
I got dhrunk again he'd turn me into a rat. He didn't see me, but he knows I'm
dhrunk, and this night into a rat I go. But I want ye to be kind to me,
darlint, and watch me, and when ye see me gettin' little, and the hair growin'
out on me, and me whiskers gettin' long, if ye ever loved me, darlint, for-
God's sake keep yer eye on the cat."
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