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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.
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Maps by Elizabeth Danforth
Cover art by Gregory Manchess
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