roilly

Updated: May 1, 2025

The old lady is his widowed mother, and the corpse, he's her only son and her a widow. He sez: 'Shure, Oi'll come, an' Oi'll be afther gettin' some o' thim other divvles to jine. Me name is Roilly. 'Right-o, old dear, I sez. 'I didn't think it was Moses and Straus."

Various - O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920