The Clerk Monologue from Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce

From Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce by Bernard Shaw

male · sarcastic · 41 sec

You can't have no rolls. The only baker that baked rolls was a Hun; and he's been interned. (AUGUSTUS: Quite right, too. And was there no Englishman to take his place?) There was. But he was caught spying; and they took him up to London and shot him. (AUGUSTUS: Shot an Englishman!) Well, it stands to reason if the Germans wanted to spy they wouldn't employ a German that everybody would suspect, don't it? AUGUSTUS (rising again). Do you mean to say, you scoundrel, that an Englishman is capable of selling his country to the enemy for gold?

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