Sowerbutt's Fight

Buffalo flung his arm in front of McGaskie as the red-faced bruiser rose from the bar table in the Hospital Tavern. Seconds earlier, McGaskie had kissed his shaved head, spluttering at the taste of surgical spirits. 
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