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A life of slash and dash was just the kind of experience that appealed to a full-blooded rip like Jim Leigh, so that he needed no persuading to take the offer, and adapt himself with fervour to the new conditions, which invested him with the knuckle-duster, the belaying pin, and the six-shooter.
The blast of the German guns swept the funnels, boats, cowls and men away as a gale blows dead leaves before it. Then the Cruiser swung clear and vanished into the darkness, pursued by the remainder of the Flotilla, and leaving the Destroyer reeling among the waves like a man that has been struck in the face with a knuckle-duster by a runaway thief.
One swelling, jeering shout from the whole crowd submerged the Swede's joking reference. "Plenty to eat!" yelled one. "Aye, plenty o' belaying-pin soup, an' knuckle-duster hash!" "Easy work!" sang out another. "In your watch below, which never happens!" "Proper gents, the mates are," spoke up a third. "They eats a sailorman every mornin' for breakfast!" Oh, they knew the Golden Bough! Who did not?
I seemed to have acquired a new and unfamiliar personality. "But the knuckle-duster was a complication; for it was his right hand that I had to watch; and yet I could not afford to free for an instant his left, armed as it was with that shabbiest of weapons.
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