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Red Axe

CHAPTER XXXIX
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That will not harm the Bishop Peter, whom my master has gone to visit.

He is a friend of his, a man learned in ecclesiastical affairs, who comes to hold disputations with the Bishop--" "Disputations--what be those?
Anything with money at the end of them?
If so, he will be a welcome guest at this house.

There is very little money at the tail of anything in this town." I thought I would try the effect of a broad silver piece upon him, at the same time giving the lad the information that disputations were kinds of fights with the tongues of men instead of with their fists.
The silver sweetened his face like a charm.

He seized me by the hand.
"My name," he cried, "is Peter of the Pigs.

I am not stable-master, but feed the grouting piglings.


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