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Ulysses
Japs were going to have their little lookin, he affirmed.
The Boers were the beginning of the end. Brummagem
England was toppling already and her downfall would be
Ireland, her Achilles heel, which he explained to them
about the vulnerable point of Achilles, the Greek hero, a
point his auditors at once seized as he completely gripped
their attention by showing the tendon referred to on his
boot. His advice to every Irishman was: stay in the land of
your birth and work for Ireland and live for Ireland.
Ireland, Parnell said, could not spare a single one of her
sons.
Silence all round marked the termination of his finale.
The impervious navigator heard these lurid tidings,
undismayed.
—Take a bit of doing, boss, retaliated that rough
diamond palpably a bit peeved in response to the
foregoing truism.
To which cold douche referring to downfall and so on
the keeper concurred but nevertheless held to his main
view.
—Who’s the best troops in the army? the grizzled old
veteran irately interrogated. And the best jumpers and
racers? And the best admirals and generals we’ve got? Tell
me that.
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