pencil-jabs

Updated: May 1, 2025

Mere noise did not even disturb their dreams. We roused them by pencil-jabs in the ribs, and they started up with savage, animal-like grunts and murderous glares which instantly subsided to sheepish grins and voiceless astonishment at sight of a white face bending over them.

Harry Alverson Franck - Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers