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Updated: June 18, 2025
The former was smoking a cigarette through a mouth-piece made by boring out the well-dried leg-bone of a chicken and was drinking nothing. Dumnoff had before him a small glass of the common whisky known as "corn-brandy" and was trying to give it a flavour resembling the vodka of his native land by stirring pepper into it with the blade of an old pocket-knife.
Down the steps, beneath a half-opened bulkhead door, he found his quarry. The Monk was moaning with pain from a shattered leg-bone. Burke clambered down and tried to lift the wounded man. "Get up here!" he commanded. "Oh, dey didn't get ye, after all!" cried Jimmie, recognizing his voice. He sank his teeth in the hand which was stretched forth to help him.
It is but a leg-bone now; it will be a rib to-morrow, and by and by doubtless it will be the skull itself. 'If you care for none of these things, sir, will not master Flowerdew have a hard name for you? I know not what it means, but it sounds of the gallows, said Richard, looking rather doubtful as to how his father might take it.
"You seem to have a better instrument than they, Marty," said Fitzpiers. "No, sir," she said, holding up the tool a horse's leg-bone fitted into a handle and filed to an edge "'tis only that they've less patience with the twigs, because their time is worth more than mine."
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