The Ship From Tara - Chapter 1

Bish was a dandy. He knew all the disreputable characters in town, which saved me having to associate with all of them. You could tell that before he'd started drinking, he'd really been somebody, somewhere. Then something pretty bad must have happened to him, and now he was there on fenry, trying to hide from him, behind a bottle. Something ought to be done to give him a shove up on his feet again. It would take a lot of doing though, and careful tactical planning. Preaching at him would be worse than useless, and so it simply trying to get him to stop drinking. That would be what Doc Roginski and the hospital