"You can throw that one away," said he, and he popped Caeltia's pipe into his own mouth.
"It will do that way," said Caeltia sadly.
He held the pipe by the stem, and with a sharp movement snapped it in halves; the head fell to the ground and a small tight wad of burning tobacco jumped from it at the shock.
"There it is," said Caeltia.
He jerked the piece of broken stem from his hand, and after sighing deeply they marched on.
Eileen Ni Cooley was angry.
"Padraig," said she, "what made you throw all the golden money away, and the silver money?"
Patsy regarded her with the calm eye of a king.
"Stick your arm through mine, Eileen," said he, "and let us be comfortable as we go along, for the pair of us haven't had a talk for a long time, and Caeltia here wants to talk to you as well as me."
"That is so," said Caeltia.