Chapter 27: Chapter XIII

Chapter XIII I heard the drums coming down the street and then the fifes and the pipes and then they came around the corner, all dancing. The street full of them. Maera saw him and then I saw him. When they stopped the music for the crouch he hunched down in the street with them all and when they started it again he jumped up and went dancing down the street with them. He was drunk all right. “You go down after him,” said Maera, “he hates me.” So I went down and caught up with them …