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  zizz: Forces slang. Nap.

  BY PATRICK TAYLOR

  Only Wounded

  Pray for Us Sinners

  Now and in the Hour of Our Death

  An Irish Country Doctor

  An Irish Country Village

  An Irish Country Christmas

  An Irish Country Girl

  An Irish Country Courtship

  A Dublin Student Doctor

  An Irish Country Wedding

  Fingal O’Reilly, Irish Doctor

  The Wily O’Reilly

  An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War

  An Irish Doctor in Love and at Sea

  An Irish Country Love Story

  Home Is the Sailor (e-original)

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Patrick Taylor, M.D., was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. Dr. Taylor is a distinguished medical researcher, offshore sailor, model-boat builder, and father of two grown children. He lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  Author’s Note

  Maps

  1. In Perils of Water

  2. A Cold Coming They Had of It

  3. I’m Leaving on a Jet Plane

  4. They That Are Sick

  5. And They Ran Awa’

  6. Pregnancy Humbles Husbands

  7. He Is Lost to the Forest

  8. I Did Search for Thee

  9. Flowing Water Near the House

  10. The Hunter Home from the Hill

  11. Examine Well Your Blood

  12. The Fool of Love

  13. To Please Thee with My Answer

  14. He Has a Fever

  15. That Will Batter the Gateway

  16. Taxes Upon Every Article

  17. Death and Taxes

  18. Hunting and Shooting

  19. Wild Geese Spread the Grey Wing

  20. He Was Lost and Is Found

  21. A Little Sleep, a Little Slumber

  22. Thou Migh’s’t Him Yet Recover

  23. Cries, and Falls into a Cough

  24. As If I Was a Public Meeting

  25. He Is No Wise Man Who Will Quit a Certainty for an Uncertainty

  26. Fair Stood the Wind for France

  27. One of Those Telegrams

  28. As the Heart Grows Older

  29. And Talk of Many Things

  30. I Ofen Looked Up at the Sky an’ Assed Meself the Question

  31. God Made the Country and Man Made the Town

  32. Home and Beauty

  33. You Are a Bachelor

  34. A Feast of Wine on the Lees, of Fat Things Full of Marrow

  35. The Game’s Afoot

  36. Desires and Petitions of Your Servants

  37. In the Valley of Decision

  38. Gaudium, What Joy Is In It

  39. Come Live with Me and Be My Love

  40. Our Revels Now Are Ended

  Afterword

  Glossary

  By Patrick Taylor

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  AN IRISH COUNTRY LOVE STORY

  Copyright © 2016 by Ballybucklebo Stories Corp.

  All rights reserved.

  Maps by Elizabeth Danforth

  Cover art by Gregory Manchess

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  ISBN 978-0-7653-8272-6 (hardcover)

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  First Edition: October 2016