"I will prepare a sack and put you and Skinny Cat in the sack and I will put the sack on my back and we will go in and out to the big city and you will not have to walk a step."
And he got down at the dresser and took the jug out of the dresser that had the milk in it and pulled the saucer over from the dresser to give a drop to Phílí Cat, every night before he went to sleep.
The place where Pílí Cat slept every night was down on the blanket in the grass above the cows and the donkey that were tied at the bottom of the house.
"He gave a wisp and drink to the cow and the donkey, ate his breakfast, and gave his breakfast to Philí Cat, and who would gracefully land into their hole on the closed door but Caolchat."
"We are going out to get shoes, everyone needs to get shoes for themselves and your feet are burnt in the ashes and you need shoes more than anyone else."
"Seán released the cow and the donkey, he opened the back door and let them out into the field, and he let out the hens and brought in the eggs from the henhouse and closed the back door tightly again and put his hand up to the loft above the back door and pulled down a sack bag."
"Ah," he said, "now I must," he said to Skinny Cat, "put you and Pílí Cat into the sack and then I will hit the sack on my back and carry you out and back into the big town and when we have bought the shoes."