Fiction | December 01, 2007
The Three-Sided Penny
Dennis McFadden
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Old Foley was the first to discover the thing, followed by your man Terrence Lafferty. Foley brought it into Cleery’s public house to show it off one evening, a year or two gone by now. He was a farmer, Foley was, a poor excuse for a farmer, a man who couldn’t afford the price of a belt so he kept his trousers up with a piece of rope.
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