The legless man’s great-great granddad worked for the Chapelizod distillery (Séipéal Iosóid) in the village of Chapelizod which sits on the Liffey south of Baile Formaid and northwest of Baile Phámar. Before that he loaded boxcars for the Minas Gerais Peach Cobbler Co. in Belo Horizonte Brazil, then as a stevedore for the Bethel Betel Nut confectionary in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. He worked for a short time as a tanner for the Dublin Dubbin company, the following year taking a position with Saint Andrews Drum Makers in Fife, journeying under the renowned tympana maker Walter Beers of The University of St. Andrews. In 1967 he worked for the Papal Minion Albert of Lazio in Rome. Between 1968-70 he worked as a driver for the Isle Limousine corp. renting a small bed-sit in Guret. In Marseille he took a part-time job as a truffle barker for the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Truffle and Bête Noir corporation. In Ventspils Latvia he taught children how to tumble and play checkers, for which he was paid 27½ Francs a week. And before moving back home he worked for the Tehran Burkha and headdress company, where he was employed in the laundry.
The legless man’s great-great grandfather preferred dogfights and amateur wrestling to cockfights. If he had a choice it would have been amateur dog wrestling, Pekingese and foxhounds, Scottish terriers and wiener dogs, Schnauzers and Heinz 57’s, large dogs and small dogs, dogs with long hair and dogs with short hair, dogs with gimpy legs and dogs with two good legs, long snouted dogs and blunt snouted dogs, barking dogs and quiet dogs, Affenpinschers and Afghan Hounds, Airedales and Alaskan Huskies, American Bull Molossers and Cocker Spaniels, Hairless Terriers and Bearded Collies, Belgian Groenendaels and Bergamasco Sheepdogs, Canary Dogs and Cardigan Welsh Corgis, Dakotah Shepherds and Danish Broholmers, Drevers and Dutch Smoushonds, Springer Spaniels and German Sheeppoodles, Mastiffs and Wirehaired Pointers, Hairless Khalas and Haired Khalas, Hovawarts and Icelandic Sheepdogs, Irish Setters and Italian Greyhounds, Jack Russell Terriers and Jim Russell Terriers, Jindos and Karelian Bear Dogs, Karst Shepherds and Kerry Blue Terriers, Lakeland Terriers and Lowland Terriers, Lancashire Heelers and Lhasa Apsos, Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dogs and Lundehunds, Maremma Sheepdogs and Miniature Pinschers, New Guinea Singing Dogs and Norwegian Buhunds, Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retrievers and Otterhounds, Patterdale Terriers and Peruvian Inca Orchids, Portuguese Water Dogs and Pugs, Rat Terriers and Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Russian Spaniels and Scottish Deerhounds, Shih Tzus and Skye Terriers, Tibetan Spaniels and Toy Poodles, Victorian Bulldogs and Elizabethan Vizslas, Welsh Springer Spaniels and Whippets, Wirehaired Vizslas and Xoloitzcuintlies, Yorkshire Terriers and Alpine Dachsbrackes. But as he was hard pressed to find anything more exotic than a Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog, he settled for amateur wrestling and checkers.
The legless man’s great-great grandfather preferred dogfights and amateur wrestling to cockfights. If he had a choice it would have been amateur dog wrestling, Pekingese and foxhounds, Scottish terriers and wiener dogs, Schnauzers and Heinz 57’s, large dogs and small dogs, dogs with long hair and dogs with short hair, dogs with gimpy legs and dogs with two good legs, long snouted dogs and blunt snouted dogs, barking dogs and quiet dogs, Affenpinschers and Afghan Hounds, Airedales and Alaskan Huskies, American Bull Molossers and Cocker Spaniels, Hairless Terriers and Bearded Collies, Belgian Groenendaels and Bergamasco Sheepdogs, Canary Dogs and Cardigan Welsh Corgis, Dakotah Shepherds and Danish Broholmers, Drevers and Dutch Smoushonds, Springer Spaniels and German Sheeppoodles, Mastiffs and Wirehaired Pointers, Hairless Khalas and Haired Khalas, Hovawarts and Icelandic Sheepdogs, Irish Setters and Italian Greyhounds, Jack Russell Terriers and Jim Russell Terriers, Jindos and Karelian Bear Dogs, Karst Shepherds and Kerry Blue Terriers, Lakeland Terriers and Lowland Terriers, Lancashire Heelers and Lhasa Apsos, Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dogs and Lundehunds, Maremma Sheepdogs and Miniature Pinschers, New Guinea Singing Dogs and Norwegian Buhunds, Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retrievers and Otterhounds, Patterdale Terriers and Peruvian Inca Orchids, Portuguese Water Dogs and Pugs, Rat Terriers and Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Russian Spaniels and Scottish Deerhounds, Shih Tzus and Skye Terriers, Tibetan Spaniels and Toy Poodles, Victorian Bulldogs and Elizabethan Vizslas, Welsh Springer Spaniels and Whippets, Wirehaired Vizslas and Xoloitzcuintlies, Yorkshire Terriers and Alpine Dachsbrackes. But as he was hard pressed to find anything more exotic than a Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog, he settled for amateur wrestling and checkers.
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