“What do I hear? Pat’s voice inside? I must find out what this means.”
“Pat, you have had a hard time all your life, working, haven’t you?” said the prisoner.
“Me b’y,” returned Pat, “I never knew annything but work.”
“Well, Pat, don’t you think that a man would be foolish to work if he could live without it?”
“Indade I do.”
“Pat, would you like to live without working if you had a chance?”
“I would be a gentleman if I could. They was always something about a man that did not work I rather admired, and wondered how they felt, dressed up all the time.”
“Pat, if you had the chance, you would try it, wouldn’t you?”
“Well, faith, and I think I would.”