Peter Carey Quote

Said he the fact of the matter is I am a rat charmer.Thats very nice but do you want the flour or not I can't stand here all day discussing it.I'll give you my two pennies said the old fellow and the benefit of my rat charming.I have no rats.Thats for me to know.What do you mean by that you stinky old galoot do you think I do not know my own house and what is in it?Never you mind what I mean my name is Kevin the Rat Charmer and that is a name you won't be forgetting in a hurry I will send a plague upon your shebeen.Will you now?I will begot and ye will be praying to the Virgin that you had relented of your penny. And with that he turned away. If he had a swag it were hidden somewhere up the track for my mother never seen it and if he had baby rats riding in his pocket they was cleverly concealed for my mother detected nothing astir on his person. He were just a stinky old man in a woollen coat he went off down the muddy track to the creek then cut down in the direction of Winton. She never saw him again but he were correct that she would remember the name of Kevin the Rat Charmer for many a day.