“Begorra,” said Patsy, “Oi couldn’t pay me five dollar foine, and Oi had
to go to gaol for six days.”
“An’ how much did yez spend to get drunk?” asked Mike, rather
sarcastically.
“Oh, ’bout five dollars.”
“Yez fool, if yez had not spent yez five dollars for drink, yez’d had
five dollars to pay yer foine wid.”
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