Not a knife

…I hacked at his face; a Bowie is not a knife, by the way, but a two-foot pointed cleaver, and if I’d got home it would have been brains for supper…

Flashman and the Redskins, p.145, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Disciples of Jesus

‘I tell you, sir, to listen to some of our friends, I could believe every plantation and barracoon from Florida to the river is peopled by the disciples of Jesus. Reason tells me this is false; the slave being God’s creature and a human soul, is no better than the rest of us. But if I said as much to Cassius Clay he would try to prove me wrong at the point of his bowie knife.’

Flash For Freedom!, p.129, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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