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his uncertain hand; if, in, and; now hot, now cold
 

... puttering something about who hit me if , in , and , when Tessier took him by abrupt wie ankles and threw up his feet , fell the bed . There he lay , shaking and eating - now hot , now cold - feeling his sword , fumbling for his pistols ...   ₁

Tessier ed , looking at the sword stick . “I go so far as to say that we are doomed like fighting bulls in a nish ... Cazac . ' “Oh , I see,” said Tessier . He was ly dressed now in his shabby half- litary clothes . But he put ...   ₂

... Tessier ded , looking at the sword stick . “I pulled the ay go so far as to say that we are redoomed like fighting ... Cazac . This meeting , in fact , was what Tessier had antici- pated . Cazac clapped him on the shoulder and ...   ₃
 

— the first evidently an OCR misread (of “muttering” ?), from poor scan (link); the second and third from a search for “tessier” + “cazac,” to identify the piece and its author (link). All these above somewhere in The Saturday Evening Post sometime in 1949, and evidently a Rattapoil story by Gerald Kersh (new to me)...
Gerald Kersh (1912-68), wikipedia : link
faved by Harlan Ellison : link

The story may have appeared in The Brazen Bull (1952).

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puttering something, and his uncertain hand : link
 

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4 February 2025