{"product_id":"2940013091740","title":"The Green Flag","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GREEN FLAG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCAPTAIN SHARKEY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CROXLEY MASTER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LORD OF CHATEAU NOIR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE STRIPED CHEST.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA SHADOW BEFORE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE KING OF THE FOXES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE THREE CORRESPONDENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW CATACOMB.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DEBUT OF BIMBASHI JOYCE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA FOREIGN OFFICE ROMANCE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GREEN FLAG\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Jack Conolly, of the Irish Shotgun Brigade, the Rory of the Hills\u003cbr\u003eInner Circle, and the extreme left wing of the Land League, was\u003cbr\u003eincontinently shot by Sergeant Murdoch of the constabulary, in a little\u003cbr\u003emoonlight frolic near Kanturk, his twin-brother Dennis joined the\u003cbr\u003eBritish Army.  The countryside had become too hot for him; and, as the\u003cbr\u003eseventy-five shillings were wanting which might have carried him to\u003cbr\u003eAmerica, he took the only way handy of getting himself out of the way.\u003cbr\u003eSeldom has Her Majesty had a less promising recruit, for his hot Celtic\u003cbr\u003eblood seethed with hatred against Britain and all things British.\u003cbr\u003eThe sergeant, however, smiling complacently over his 6 ft. of brawn and\u003cbr\u003ehis 44 in. chest, whisked him off with a dozen other of the boys to the\u003cbr\u003edepot at Fermoy, whence in a few weeks they were sent on, with the\u003cbr\u003espade-work kinks taken out of their backs, to the first battalion of the\u003cbr\u003eRoyal Mallows, at the top of the roster for foreign service.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Royal Mallows, at about that date, were as strange a lot of men as\u003cbr\u003eever were paid by a great empire to fight its battles.  It was the\u003cbr\u003edarkest hour of the land struggle, when the one side came out with\u003cbr\u003ecrow-bar and battering-ram by day, and the other with mask and with\u003cbr\u003eshot-gun by night.  Men driven from their homes and potato-patches found\u003cbr\u003etheir way even into the service of the Government, to which it seemed to\u003cbr\u003ethem that they owed their troubles, and now and then they did wild\u003cbr\u003ethings before they came.  There were recruits in the Irish regiments who\u003cbr\u003ewould forget to answer to their own names, so short had been their\u003cbr\u003eacquaintance with them.  Of these the Royal Mallows had their full\u003cbr\u003eshare; and, while they still retained their fame as being one of the\u003cbr\u003esmartest corps in the army, no one knew better than their officers that\u003cbr\u003ethey were dry-rotted with treason and with bitter hatred of the flag\u003cbr\u003eunder which they served.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079182500080,"sku":"2940013091740","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013091740_p0.jpg?v=1763576690","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013091740","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}