full price and interest on top.You pay her back weekly. Some of her cus- tomers fall behind in their payments and they need threatening letters. She says, I’ll give you threepence for every letter you write and another threepence if it brings a payment. If you want the job come here on Thursday and Friday nights, and bring your own paper and envelopes. I’m desperate for that job. I want to go to America. But I have no money for paper and envelopes. Next day I’m delivering a telegram to Woolworth’s and there is the answer,a whole section packed with paper and envelopes. I have no money so I have to help myself. But how? Two dogs save the day for me, two dogs at the door of Woolworth’s stuck together after the excitement.They yelp and run in circles. Customers and sales clerks giggle and pretend to be looking someplace else and while  they’re  busy  pretending  I  slip  paper  and  envelopes  under  my sweater, out the door and off on my bike far from stuck dogs. Mrs. Finucane  looks  suspicious. That’s  very  fancy  stationery  you have there, by. Is that your mother’s? You’ll give that back when you get the money, won’t you, by? Oh, I will. From now on I’m never to come to her front door.There’s a lane behind her house and I’m to come in the back door for fear someone might see me. In a large ledger she gives me the names and addresses of six cus- tomers behind in their payments.Threaten ’em, by. Frighten the life out of ’em. My first letter, Dear Mrs. O’Brien, Inasmuch as you have not seen fit to pay me what you owe me I may be forced to resort to legal action.There’s your son, Michael, parading around the world in his new suit which I paid for while I myself have barely a crust to keep body and soul together. I am sure you don’t want to languish in the dungeons of Limerick jail far from friends and family. I remain, yours in litigious anticipation, Mrs. Brigid Finucane She tells me,That’s a powerful letter, by, better than anything you’d read in the Limerick Leader. That word, inasmuch, that’s a holy terror of a word.What does it mean? 331