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Wouldn't Unscrew any more.
--Captain Evans was an old navy veteran of sixty-seven years. He had lost an arm and an eye, years before, at Navarino, which last action settled his understanding, both legs being carried off by a chain-shot.
Cork legs were coming into fashion.
Captain Evans had a pair of the first quality made for him; he had a false arm and hand; into the latter he could screw a fork or a hook, as occasion required, and being gloved, the deficiency was not easily perceived.
As increasing years rendered him infirm, his valet took advantage of him, so that he wrote to his brother, a Somerset shire squire, to send him up some tenant's son, as a body servant.
"No matter how stupid, if he be honest and faithful," he wrote.
His brother was absent, and sent to his steward to select a lad. This the steward did, but merely mentioned that Captain Evans was infirm, not apprising the bumpkin of his new master's deficiencies, and sent them to London at once, where the ca