Vulgar words in Tales of Space and Time (Page 1)
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"Meant it friendly," said the swart man, recalling [280] the scene; "but-in front of that blarsted Whitey and his snigger-Well-I 'ad to scrap."
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"Fact is, you done know 'ow to scrap.
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"Lemme show you 'ow to scrap.
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"If you don't get learnt scrapping you'll get killed,-don't you make no bones of that."
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"The chaps are always scrapping," said the swart man.
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"Look see!" he said: "are you going to let me show you 'ow to scrap?"
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Blunt, the swart artist in scrapping, having first let [288] Denton grasp the bearing of his lesson, intervened, not without a certain quality of patronage.
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"Can't you see 'e don't know 'ow to scrap?"
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"If it isn't too late ..." That night, after the second spell, Denton went with Blunt to certain waste and slime-soaked vaults under the Port of London, to learn the first beginnings of the high art of scrapping as it had been perfected in the great world of the underways: how to hit or kick a man so as to hurt him excruciatingly or make him violently sick, how to hit or kick "vital," how to use glass in one's garments as a club and to spread red ruin with various domestic implements, how to anticipate and demolish your adversary's intentions in other directions; all the pleasant devices, in fact, that had grown up among the disinherited of the great cities of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, were spread out by a gifted exponent for Denton's [289] learning.
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He knew nothing of the scrapping lessons, and he spent the time in telling Denton and the vault generally of certain disagreeable proceedings he had in mind.