Leibowitz says the world never saw such eyes, such a smile, such happi- ness. She makes me dance, says Mrs. Leibowitz. When Dad comes home from looking for a job he holds Margaret and sings to her: In a shady nook one moonlit night A leprechaun I spied. With scarlet cap and coat of green A cruiskeen by his side. ’Twas tick tock tick his hammer went Upon a tiny shoe. Oh, I laugh to think he was caught at last, But the fairy was laughing, too. He walks around the kitchen with her and talks to her. He tells her how lovely she is with her curly black hair and the blue eyes of her mother. He tells her he’ll take her to Ireland and they’ll walk the Glens of Antrim and swim in Lough Neagh. He’ll get a job soon, so he will, and she’ll have dresses of silk and shoes with silver buckles. The more Dad sings to Margaret the less she cries and as the days pass she even begins to laugh. Mam says, Look at him trying to dance with that child in his arms, him with his two left feet. She laughs and we all laugh. The twins cried when they were small and Dad and Mam would say Whisht and Hush and feed them and they’d go back to sleep. But when Margaret cries there’s a high lonely feeling in the air and Dad is out of bed in a second, holding her to him, doing a slow dance around the table, singing to her, making sounds like a mother.When he passes the window where the streetlight shines in you can see tears on his cheeks and that’s strange because he never cries for anyone unless he has the  drink  taken  and  he  sings  the  Kevin  Barry  song  and  the  Roddy McCorley song. Now he cries over Margaret and he has no smell of drink on him. Mam tells Minnie MacAdorey, He’s in heaven over that child. He hasn’t touched a drop since she was born. I should’ve had a little girl a long time ago. Och,  they’re  lovely,  aren’t  they?  says  Minnie. The  little  boys  are grand, too, but you need a little girl for yourself. 30