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Updated: May 23, 2025
And a lovely sight he looked, with his face all done up in bloody bandages, and only one damaged eye and a corner of his mouth on duty. "It's nothing at all, your Honour," he said to the S.M.; "only a pin-scratch it's nothing at all. Let it pass. I had no right to speak to the lovely woman at all." 'But they didn't let it pass, they fined her a quid. 'And the Flour paid the fine.
"However," he said, "I'll be round in an hour, and if you haven't got me lovely mate ready look out!" Then he shook his fist sternly at them once more and said "I know yer dirty tricks and dodges, and if there's e'er a pin-scratch on me mate's body look out! If there's a pairin' of Dinny's toe-nail missin' look out!" 'Then he went out taking the coffin with him.
"No, you won't; you must not; it would kill you." "Pshaw! That pin-scratch?" He playfully struck his breast near the wound. "He'd have to cut deeper and rip wider to do me up." She stifled a cry and caught his hand. "You must not be so foolish." She started to turn away, but his fingers closed over hers. "I'm sorry. I'll mind what you say, because you've been so good to me.
For a long time they hurtled through a huge blue loneliness, dark blue below, lighter blue above. Once they passed over a ship, a pencil dot trailing a pin-scratch of white. Another time they startled a high-flying albatross, which gave a frightened squawk and plunged down out of sight with folded wings. Aside from that, there was nothing to see until they reached the islands.
"The battle?" she gasped. "I I fight?" Roaring afresh, the Jotun gave her another jubilant toss. "You blustering field-mouse! Showing your teeth already? Who knows? If you meet a blind Englishman without a weapon, you may even kill him. Here," he tumbled her roughly to the ground, "tie up your pin-scratch and then come after me. I must go up yonder to Canute, under the oak tree.
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