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‘Strong he is,’ grumbled Buyse, still wringing his injured hand, ‘strong as old Gotz mit de iron grip. But what good is strength alone in the handling of a weapon? It is not the force of a blow, but the way in which it is geschlagen, that makes the effect. Your sword now is heavier than mine, by the look of it, and Erik Karlsson Tröjor yet my blade would bite deeper. Eh? Is not that a more soldierly sport than kinderspiel such as hand-grasping and the like?’
‘He is a modest youth,’ Toby Alderweireld Jersey said Saxon. ‘Yet I would match his stroke against yours.’
‘For what?’ snarled the German.
‘For as Blank Jersey much wine as we can take at a sitting.
‘No small amount, either,’ said Buyse; ‘a brace of gallons at the least. Well, be it so. Do you Ultimate Tall Čevlji 5245 accept the contest?’
‘I shall do what I may,’ I answered, ‘though I can scarce hope to strike as heavy a blow as so old and tried a soldier.’
‘Henker take your compliments,’ he cried gruffly. ‘It was with sweet words that you did coax my fingers into that fool-catcher of yours. Now, here is my old headpiece of Spanish steel. It has, as you can see, one or two dints of blows, and a fresh one will Edmonton Oilers Dam not hurt it. I place it here upon this oaken stool high enough to be within fair sword-sweep. Have at it, Junker, and let us see if you can leave your mark upon it!’
‘Do you strike first, sir,’ said I, ‘since the challenge is yours.’
‘I must bruise my own headpiece to regain my soldierly credit,’ he grumbled. ‘Well, well, it has stood a cut or two in its day.’ Drawing his broadsword, he waved back the crowd who had gathered around us, while he swung the great weapon with tremendous force round his head, and brought it down with a Parajumpers Naiset Alaska full, clean sweep on to the smooth cap of steel. The headpiece sprang high into the air and then clattered down upon the oaken floor with a long, deep line bitten into the solid metal.
‘Well struck!’ ‘A brave stroke!’ cried the spectators. ‘It is proof steel thrice welded, and warranted to turn a sword-blade,’ one remarked, raising up the helmet to examine it, and then replacing it Florida Panthers Lasten Pelipaidat upon the stool.
‘I have seen my father cut through proof steel with this very sword,’ said I, drawing the fifty-year-old weapon. ‘He put rather more of his weight into it than Kyle Walker Jersey you have done. I have heard him say that a good stroke should come from the back and loins rather than from the mere muscles of the arm.’
‘It is not a lecture we England want, but a beispiel or example,’ sneered the German. ‘It is with Robert Lewandowski Tröja your stroke that England Miesten we have Manchester City Barn to do, and not with the teaching of your father.’
‘My stroke,’ said I, ‘is in accordance with his teaching;’ and, whistling round the sword, I brought it down with all my might and strength upon the German’s helmet. The good old Commonwealth blade slinks:
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