after Oliver died, Eugene dies too. All the men in the family drink a lot in the funeral. Angela just stays in her bed each day and does not want to do anything.
The McCourt family moves from Hartstonge Street to a place called Roden Lane in December. Angela goes to the St. Vincent de Paul society to see if there is any chance of getting some furniture. The men in the St. Vincent de Paul society give her a docket for some used furniture in a second-hand furniture shop. Angela is worried about sleeping in beds someone might have died in, especially if they had the consumption. They have to haul the furniture home on a pram from one end of Limerick to the other.
While they are sitting in the kitchen drinking tea, a man comes to empty his bucket of shit into the lavatory which is just outside their front door. After some discussion they realize that the lavatory they thought was their own, in fact belongs to the whole lane. The smell is terrible, especially in the summer, when the tempera
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