Re: Enquiring minds want to know..
"A broadside then boarding and hand to hand fighting. It will be carnage."
"So what're you going to do when we catch them?"
"Er. .." Vimes hadnt given this a lot of thought. But he recalled a very bad woodcut he'd once seen in a book about pirates. "We'll swing across on to them with our cutlasses in our teeth?" he said.
"Really?" said Jenkins. "That's good. I haven't seen that done in years. Only ever seen it done once, in fact."
"Oh, yes?"
"Yes, this lad'd seen the idea in a book and he swung across into the other ship's rigging with his cutlass clenched, as you say, between his teeth."
"Yes?"
"Topless Harry, we wrote on his coffin."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
