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Rileys Take in the Gillises After a Fire

The Life of Riley · May 4, 1946 · 27 min · 3,814 words

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F's. C-O-T-E-L, T-E-L, the amazing liquid dendafress. That's it. T-E-E-L, the amazing liquid dendafress brings you the life of Riley with William Bendix as Riley. Remember friends for a beautiful smile, just T-E-E-L, T-L, and just the last, it's our eye, L-E-Y Riley and the life of Riley.

Master A. Riley, California aircraft worker, has a big heart and a mouth to match. When he opens both at the same time, the Riley's are headed for trouble. At the moment, Riley and his friend and neighbor Jim Gillis are walking home together from the weekly meeting of their lodge.

Ah, Brother Riley, that was a beautiful meeting we had tonight. Yeah, Gillis. Truly touching. Believe me, Riley, there ain't no brotherhood like the brotherhood of the BPLA. Yeah. I'm sure proud to be a member of the Brooklyn Patriots of Los Angeles.

You know, Randy, before I joined myself to the lodge, I was always lonesome. Nobody knows what I suffered. Oh, I know. I had times when I suffered, too. But now that I'm in the lodge, I'm insufferable.

It's like it says in our sacred initiation ceremony, the lone wolves sail into the happy harbor where they failed their anchors in the ocean of devotion. Where the fountain of fidelity sprays us all with the milk of human kindness and the flower of brotherly love flourishes forever in the fertilizer of friendship.

Poetical, innit? Yeah. It makes your throat fill up with a lump of sediment. Give me your hand, till it's all pal. The grip of brotherhood. Shake, shake, Riley. And now let's repeat the oath of everlasting brotherhood finger the finger thumb the thumb if I should forsake you call me a bum Nothing to level come between us writing off. We're all we hey. Hey, what's the matter, right? Look look jealous that house down the black

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