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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Why did I name that old fellow, your late neighbor, Pierce-Skin? Because his bones stick out through his skin. But you, apart from your two wounds, what a strong constitution you have! What broad shoulders! What a chest! What a back! What powerful limbs!"
The "horse-dealer," having finished speaking to the keepers, approached the old man, and said to him in Gallic, but with an accent that proved his foreign origin: "My old Pierce-Skin how has your neighbor come on? Has he at last recovered from his stupor? Is he at last able to speak?" "Ask him," snapped the old man, turning over on the straw. "He'll answer you himself."
"So it was on the battlefield of Vannes you bought me?" "The same." "You doubtlessly picked me up at the place where I fell?" "Yes, there was a great pile of you Gauls there, in which there were only you and three others worth taking, among them that great booby, your neighbor you know, Pierce-Skin. The Cretan archers gave him to me for good measure after the sale. That is the way with you Gauls.
I repeat that if I had been obliged to buy the two children in one lot with you, or even if they had been given to me to boot, in the market, like old Pierce-Skin, my first care would have been to have put you up for sale without them. Do you understand at last, double and triple block that you are?" At last I did understand; heretofore I had not dreamed of such refinement of torture in slavery.
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