A good plan, Schreuder murmured, and urged the priest down the bankto where the horses waited. But the steel had found the heart and, its legs folded gently under it,the bull sagged wearily onto its knees. Hetugged hard on the rope. Some of the fat wives screamed, and one fell tothe ground in a fit, frothing at the mouth.
The Buztard stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun. Hal lowered himself and pushed his way through the throng of seamen,stepping over the bodies of the sick and wounded. If you need help, I have three first-ratecarpenters. And that takes care of that, thought the Buzzard, as he bowed his headin reluctant acquiescence.
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