《The Devils Jaw》作者： - Alexander Key【EPUB】

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Argosy vol. 283 August 13 1938The Devils JawBy ALEXANDER KEYAuthor of quotThe Brothers Romanoquot quotThe Captain has a Catquot etcCapn Lucius Shackel had been getting the gold fever regularly for years—and finally it took. A roaringsaga of the GulfII BEEN tow-boatin with Capn Lucius P. Shackel ever since he left his port leg in a sharks bellysomewhere off Cuby a little matter which forced us to give up sail and buy the Mary Shackel. Tow-boatin bein an easier life and all Capn Lucius has acquired such a terrible lot of beam anballast that it now takes a full fathom of gator hide to circum-navigate him and hold his britches up. Thisfact concernin the size of his bilge is not particular important as long as you dont refer to it within hishearin and as long as he has plenty of turnin room and a clear channel ahead. But just git him tangled up somewhere and git him riled in the bargain like say that time up atSpanish Landin—then youve got something started thatll be the talk of every town on the Gulf coast. Theres been all kinds of versions about what happened that time at Spanish Landin and no twoof them alike. You can take this statement as the cold naked truth as I was right there with him when hefought Shark-face McTigue and rammed his hickory spar slap down into the Devils Jaw… But Im workin too far to windard. It starts with a little canvas bag that Capn Lucius takes offna feller over at Pensacola for a bad debt Whats in this bag I dont know except that from the day hegits it Capn Lucius is a changed man. Instead of his usual three dozen batter cakes for breakfast hedont pack away but hardly a dozen and he acts worst with dinner and supper. When hes offered asmackin’ good price to bring ten barges of pulpwood around from Mobile what does he do but turn itdown