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Updated: May 7, 2025

"Then I sez, 'Glory be, and cross myself and signal the doughboys to lower away on the coffin, and I flung a handfula dirt in on top like I see 'em do always. "Well, the poor old widow near collapsed and Rathbone and the marine had to hold hard to keep her on her pins. But Reilly created a diversion by startin' up the motor-bike, and it back-fired like a buncha rookies tryin' to fire a volley.

Various - O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920