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“Trent!” Mary Catherine barked

“Yes, Mary Catherine?” Trent said, like a nervous miniature recruit about to start marine boot camp

“Get the girls in here, pronto! They’re part of this I know they are”

“Yes, Mary Catherine”

The girls cay Seamus

“Nohose idea was this? Tell e”

Everybody glanced at each other

“We all did,” Brian said after a moment

“Oh, you all did? How creative of you That’s just great After all I do for the lot of you, you plot behind my back? That’s just a real fine how-do-you-do after the niceof which, I have a question for you Where did that food come from?”

“Mr Cody,” Eddie said, raising his hand

“Wrong,” Mary Catherine snapped at hiht under this roof Where did this house come from?”

“Uain

“Wrong again, wise guy,” Mary Catherine said “Food, houses, everything good that you use in this world, comes from one place: work Men and women worked to put food on your plate Men and woether Now, let me ask you another question Where would the lot of you be if all those men and women decided to claim that they were sick and sleep in?”

“Up a creek?” Eddie said with a shrug

“Finally, Eddie, you got one exactly right Without people working, we’d all be up a certain type of creek without a paddle”