Can’t ye have respect for the dead? Go easy with that poor horse. The stable man says, For the love o’ Jaysus what are ye squawkin’ about? ’Tis only a dead horse, and Michael runs at him again with his head down and his small fists flying till the stable man gives him a shove that sends him on his back and Mam goes at the stable man in such a rage he runs up the planks and over Finn’s body to escape. He comes back drunk in the evening to sleep it off and after he leaves there’s a smoldering in the hay and the stable burns down the rats running up the lane with every boy and dog chasing them till they escape into the streets of respectable people. 215