Cutlass and Cudgel

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cutlass and Cudgel, by George Manville Fenn This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Cutlass and Cudgel Author: George Manville Fenn Illustrator: J Schonberg Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21297] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CUTLASS AND CUDGEL *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England George Manville Fenn "Cutlass and Cudgel" Chapter One. “Heigh-Ho-Ha-Hum! Oh dear me!” “What’s matter, sir?” “Matter, Dirty Dick? Nothing; only, heigh-ho-ha! Oh dear me, how sleepy I am!” “Well, sir, I wouldn’t open my mouth like that ’ere, ’fore the sun’s up.” “Why not?” “No knowing what you might swallow off this here nasty, cold, foggy, stony coast.” “There you go again, Dick; not so good as Lincolnshire coast, I suppose?” “As good, sir? Why, how can it be?” said the broad, sturdy sailor addressed. “Nothin’ but great high stony rocks, full o’ beds of great flat periwinkles and whelks; nowhere to land, nothin’ to see. I am surprised at you, sir. Why, there arn’t a morsel o’ sand.” “For not praising your nasty old flat sandy shore, with its marsh beyond, and its ague and bogs and fens.” “Wish I was ’mong ’em now, sir.