Tatty Howking Quotes

“Only that morning coming up the Clyde, when Norah and I looked across the water to a country new to both of us, my mind was full of dreams of the future. But the rosy-tinted boyish dreams of morning were shattered before the fall of night. Maybe the old man who lay by the dung-heap came to Scotland with dreams like mine. Now the spirit was crushed out of him; he was broken on the wheel of life, and he had neither the courage to rob, sin, or die. He could only beg his bit and apologise for begging. The first day in Scotland disgusted me, made me sick of life, and if it were not that Norah Ryan was in the squad I would go back to Jim MaCrossan's farm again.”
― Patrick MacGill, Children of the Dead End