Volume 1, No. 1

Pennington's Dance / Russell... 4

their curtains. Generally, when the air raid sirens started to blow Henry Flemming and Pat O'Keefe were already out of the house so Nora and Julia were left alone to mind the children.
Henry and Pat were good men, though while Pat was in the pub most of the time, he was harmless enough. With Henry he wouldn't be found in a pub unless it was to try and persuade the men in them to go home to their wives and children. Everyone but the lads in the pub called him a saint for he was never without his beads, constantly clicking them wherever he went. Henry would invite everyone to pray when him wherever he was, embarrassing this children so much they found excuses not to be around him.
Nora's children used to find ways into and out of the house so Dad wouldn't see them and haul them into the room to pray with him. Many times they were successful, climbing out upstairs windows and travelling down the