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The Sailor Steve Costigan Stories Title of Sailor Steve Costigan's adventure - Kindle edition by Robert E. Howard. Download it once and read it on your. Sailor Steve Costigan is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. He is a Stories Title of Sailor Steve Costigan's adventure EBook. PDF The Sailor.
Costigan grabs the contract, the only proof of the bet, and begins to eat it. Jessup tries to retrieve it, but Swedes in the audience, thinking he is trying to interfere with their boxer, attack him.
Free of that problem, Costigan decides to fight to the finish regardless of the referee's threat. This too is solved quite soon after when, in the confusion of the fight, the referee accidentally starts to count Costigan out in Spanish having only used Swedish, Danish and Norwegian so far. Costigan realises that he isn't Scandinavian, either, and the referee admits that he is an American vaudeville linguist called John Jones who took the job because he needed the money.
Costigan and Hakon fight savagely but Hakon eventually collapses in a corner and cannot get up again.
I smashed solid on his sagging jaw so hard it numbed my whole arm. The night Slade fought Sailor Handler they was forty-five men here, each payin' a hundred and twenty-five dollars for admission. His face was dead white, and those black, burning eyes blazed out at me—say, fellows! Webarchive template wayback links Articles with topics of unclear notability from September All articles with topics of unclear notability. It's fighting for a flag, a nation, a woman, a kid or a dog that makes a man win.
The Swedish captain celebrates with Costigan and, after the match they have seen, does not mind that he clearly is not one of his countrymen. Vikings of the Gloves was first published in the February issue of the pulp magazine Fight Stories. Since that time it has been reprinted in these publications:.
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Steve is a heavyweight boxer, weighing lb and standing 6 ft 1.
He has the "Black Irish" combination of blue eyes and black hair. The Sailor Steve Costigan Stories: The House of Peril. Shore Leave for a Slugger.
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Write a customer review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Robert E Howard known for Conan, best character is actually Steve Cortigan, who by the way he wrote the most stories of. Being an amatuer boxer REH truly shows his knowledge with his first person stories starring Sailor Steve Cortigan who goes port to port fighting misc. Hilarious tall tales about boxing, dames and crime in exotic ports around the world from an unreliable and somewhat dim-witted narrator.
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