double-trick

Updated: May 9, 2025

"And next time I hear you swearing, I'll treat you to a double-trick, my man! About turn. Quick march." The sentry trudged off without daring to answer him, and Brown took a good look at the fakir through the iron bars that protected the top half of the door. Then he went off to see about his supper, of newly slaughtered goat-chops and chupatties baked in ghee.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East