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So there, upon the bridge, the fight raged fiercer than before; men smote and died, until of Sir Pertolepe's garrison there none remained save they that littered that narrow causeway. "Now by the good Saint Giles my patron saint," gasped Giles, wiping the sweat from him, "here was a good and sweet affray, tall brother a very proper fight, pugnus et calcibus while it lasted "
I went back, and says I, "Who fired those two shots?" Two fellows spoke up and said that they did it. No sooner was it spoken, than I was on them like a duck on a june-bug, pugnis et calcibus. We "fout and fit, and gouged and bit," right there in that picket post. I have the marks on my face and forehead where one of them struck me with a Yankee zinc canteen, filled with water.
They made desperate feint of being at the height of enjoyment and unconscious of spectators; but they had much modesty, for all that. The girls threw themselves into it pugnis et calcibus, unshrinking, indefatigable. Did I say that it was amusing? I should rather say that it was painful.
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