cold-awful

Updated: June 16, 2025

“‘Go!’ says I. ‘Go to Hell, Dan. I’m with you here. Billy Fish, you clear out, and we two will meet those folk.’ “‘I’m a Chief,’ says Billy Fish, quite quiet. ‘I stay with you. My men can go.’ “The Bashkai fellows didn’t wait for a second word but ran off, and Dan and Me and Billy Fish walked across to where the drums were drumming and the horns were horning. It was cold-awful cold.

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