‘And One Chink’
The Bull Dog Breed by Robert E. Howard
“If you was any part of a man, you big mic ham…you wouldn’t stand around and let a blanket-blank French so-on and so-forth lay out your captain…” and so Sailor Steve Costigan is shamed into picking a fight with a fighter of a much higher caliber, a common fate of the “mic” [Irish] “ham” [ham and egg fighter or pug who fights to put food on his table] he…