COLLINS: Were you old enough to do the hunt? With Da? Did you have a parting glass? You know what a parting glass is, yeah? See… when I was… only a little older than you, I s’pose, Da took me to the hunt. The fox hunt.
You at least know what foxes are? Good. At least that much is straight. They have these cups. Stirrup cups, they call them. Toast before you go.
Feet in the stirrups, parting glass. They look like animals, all of ‘em. And I remember me Da handing me a little lamb, just… just a wee thing.
The men all sniggered and chortled. Me, with me little lamb in me hands. We toasted before we went. Before a hunt began. {thepartinglass}