Both Meat and Dhrink
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"Old Pat Kane" was a Wexford man who worked on a rich man's estate in the Philadelphia suburbs. Ed visited Pat and his wife in the early seventies, a year or so after his visit to Ireland. Pat worked the farm much as he did in the Old Country and he had great flavor in his language. He liked his bottle of "Porther," whenever he could get it. He often exclaimed that man needed nothing else to sustain himself in this life. "It is more than a drink," he was heard to say-"it's both meat and dhrink."
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