Volume 1, No. 1

Pennington's Dance / Russell... 5

drainpipe to the street, or traversing over to the neighbour's roof and down their rose trellis and heading in or out that way. It became an art form and the neighbours on the street came to be used to seeing one of the Flemming children climbing walls and walking along roofs to avoid the dad in the front room. "Ah yes my Henry," Nora would say, "good man that, but he should have been a priest for he wasn't much help to me over the years, but still he was a good man - a godly man, no denying it."
"That man of yours," Julia would say to Nora, "That man is no father, always pray, pray, pray, there's more to fathering than praying. He should be out working Nora, instead of you out working two jobs, wearing yourself down like that. And he does nothing around the house to help out. I see him sitting there with the rug around his legs, you ought to light a fire under that one Nora, you mind me, it'll be the death of you yet, going the way