Into the local pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he’d just
been run over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is
broken, his face is cut and bruised and he’s walking with a
limp.
“What happened to you?” asks Sean, the bartender.
“Jamie O’Connor and me had a fight,” says Paddy.
“That little shit, O’Connor?” says Sean, “He couldn’t do that to
you, he must have had something in his hand.”
“That he did,” says Paddy, “a shovel is what he had, and a
terrible lickin’ he gave me with it.”
“Well,” says Sean, “you should have defended yourself. Didn’t
you have something in your hand?”
“That I did,” said Paddy, “Mrs. O’Connor’s breast, and a thing
of beauty it was, but useless in a fight.”
