The Miraculous Revenge: Little Blue Book #215
The misadventures of an alcoholic investigator.
O'Flaherty V. C. – by George Bernard Shaw
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O'FLAHERTY. If you'd been brought up by my mother, sir, you'd know better than to joke about her. What I'm telling you is the truth; and I wouldn't tell it to you if I could see my way to get out of the fix I'll be in when my mother comes here this day to see her boy in his glory, and she after thinking all the time it was against the English I was fighting.
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