Fintan says, Come with me, Patrick. My mother will give us some- thing, and Paddy says,Ah, no, me nose is bleedin’. Don’t worry.She’ll put something on your nose or a key on the back of your neck. Francis, you must come, too.You always look hungry. Ah, no, Fintan. Ah, do, Francis. All right, Fintan. Fintan’s flat is like a chapel.There are two pictures, the Sacred Heart of  Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Jesus is showing His heart with the crown of thorns, the fire, the blood. His head is tilted to the left to show His great sorrow. The Virgin Mary is showing her heart and it would be a pleasant heart if it didn’t have that crown of thorns. Her head is tilted to the right to show her sorrow because she knows her Son will come to a sad end. There’s a picture on another wall of a man with a brown robe and birds sitting all over him. Fintan says, Do you know who that is, Fran- cis? No? That’s your patron, St. Francis of Assisi, and do you know what today is? The fourth of October. That’s right and it’s his feast day and special for you because you can ask St. Francis for anything and he’ll surely give it to you.That’s why I wanted you to come here today. Sit down, Patrick, sit down, Francis. Mrs.  Slattery  comes  in  with  her  rosary  beads  in  her  hand.  She’s happy to meet Fintan’s new friends and would we like a cheese sand- wich? And look at your poor nose, Patrick. She touches his nose with the cross on her rosary beads and says a little prayer. She tells us these rosary beads were blessed by the Pope himself and would stop the flow of a river if requested never mind Patrick’s poor nose. Fintan says he won’t have a sandwich because he’s fasting and pray- ing for the boy who hit Paddy and me. Mrs. Slattery gives him a kiss on the head and tells him he’s a saint out of heaven and asks if we’d like mustard on our sandwiches and I tell her I never heard of mustard on cheese and I’d love it. Paddy says, I dunno. I never had a sangwidge in me life, and we all laugh and I wonder how you could live ten years like Paddy and never have a sandwich. Paddy laughs, too, and you can see his teeth are white and black and green. We eat the sandwich and drink tea and Paddy wants to know where the lavatory is. Fintan takes him through the bedroom to the backyard 158