Pat the Irish immigrant died in a freak mining accident...
...leaving Kathleen, his young wife, near mad with grief. After the burial, Kathleen's mother drew her aside, and took her in her arms, and rocked her as she wept, and tried to comfort her:
"But think on what a grand man he was, Kathleen! Weren't they all saying at the wake as that Pat was a miner without equal, quick with a pick and tireless at the coal face?"
"Oh, aye!" wailed Kathleen. "That he was, that he was!"
"And a loving pat…