Big Bucks
Fina and John Michael have grown up together in a small seashore village in Ireland, and plan to marry. John Michael's widowed mother dies; her son …
His arm held out, Bat Quinn used to point over the sea to the horizon beyond the two rocks that were islands in the bay. "Big bucks," he used to say, and name the men who had gone after them: Donoghue and Artie Corrigan and Meagher and Flynn.