In which I Get Acquainted With Captain Adoniram Tugg
The face I finally saw at the top of that beanpole figure was as long as the moral law. Such a lank, cadaverous visage I don't think I had ever seen before. The man was a human lath.
And so bronzed and toughened was his hide that he looked to be made out of sole-leather. His mouth was a gri