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“What? You gonna fight me, boy? Try and pigstick me from behind the way your old man would?”

“I should pigstick her anyway. You’d thank me later.”

“If we pigstick her, we’re rich. No more crew for life, right?”

Nailer would have been smarter to simply let Pima pigstick the girl and be done with it.

They know how, or they would be severally and separately and many times dead, but they do not, they do not indeed, know that animals who stand on one hind leg and beckon with all the rest, or try to pigstick in harness, are not trap-horses worthy of endearing names, but things to be pole-axed.