“O'Keeffe approaches a milkman whilst out in London recruiting, prods a youth pushing a milk cart :"Say, don't you want to serve your king?" "Yus" answered the youth "How many quarts will he want?"”

—  Pat O'Keeffe

Star Green 'un- Saturday 17 July 1915.

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