Bridie was not done with Sean, but she’d have to wait to give him apiece. The man in what was once their parents’ bed bothered her more right now. She and the boys had talked about taking on a boarder - they could barely make rent with Bridie’s laundry work and what the boys brought in. Rent or necessaries at the Company Store? She muttered a curse against the Pennsylvania and Western Coal Company - the PW - the Piss and Wind Coal Company she mostly called it.

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