Padna

Micus and Padna seated at a table drinking from pewter pints.

Duty, and other Irish Comedies Seumas O'Brien

A noise like the falling of furniture is heard from the room where Padna and Micus are.

Duty, and other Irish Comedies Seumas O'Brien

While she is away, something falls in the room where Micus and Padna are.

Duty, and other Irish Comedies Seumas O'Brien

Padna sat down in the little workshop, and under the agreeable influence of the place he made bold to ask the shoemaker if he had grown up to be a shoemaker as the geranium had grown up to be a geranium in its pot on the window.

Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

The shoemaker invited Padna to sit down in his workshop, which he did.

Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

Padna concluded that the bumps had been encouraged by the professional necessity of constantly hanging his head over his knees.

Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

There are your boots, Padna, tips and all ... half-a-crown.

Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

Padna abandoned the impression that the shoemaker was a melancholy man.

Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

Obeying a domestic mandate, Padna wrapped a pair of boots in paper and took them to the shoemaker, who operated behind a window in a quiet street.

Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

Padna said nothing, but put the cat down on the floor.

Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899