thick soup from the kettle into a bowl. Katey, sitting opposite Boody, said quietly, as her fingertip lifted to her mouth random crumbs:

A good job we have that much. Where’s Dilly?

Gone to meet father, Maggy said.

Boody, breaking big chunks of bread into the yellow soup, added:

Our father who art not in heaven.

Maggy, pouring yellow soup in Katey’s bowl, exclaimed:

Boody!

For shame!

A skiff, a crumpled throwaway, Elijah is coming, rode lightly down the Liffey, under Loopline bridge, shooting the rapids where water chafed around the bridgepiers, sailing eastward past hulls and anchorchains, between the Customhouse old dock and George’s