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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 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,’ said Saxon. ‘Yet Lyon Trikot I would match his stroke against yours.’
‘For what?’ snarled the German.
‘For as 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 accept Manchester United Koszulka 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 Paris Saint-Germain Koszulka headpiece of Spanish steel. It has, as you can see, one or two dints Everton Koszulka of blows, and a fresh one will 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 Gonzalo Higuain Trikot upon it!’
‘Do you West Ham United Trikot strike first, sir,’ said I, ‘since the challenge is yours.’
‘I must bruise my own headpiece to regain my soldierly credit,’ Toni Kroos Trikot he Yaya Toure Koszulka grumbled. ‘Well, well, it has stood a cut or two in its day.’ Drawing his broadsword, he waved back the Męskie Koszulka crowd who had gathered around us, while he swung the great weapon with tremendous force round his head, and brought it Alexis Sanchez Trikot down with a 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 upon the stool.
‘I Uruguay Trikot have seen my father cut through proof steel with this very Malaga Trikot sword,’ said I, drawing the fifty-year-old weapon. ‘He put rather more of his weight into it than 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 want, but a beispiel or example,’ sneered the German. ‘It is with your stroke that we have 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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