he paced the deck with his bantam swagger…

Digital Montage / Roy R. Behrens © 2012

John Dos Passos, The Best of Times: An Informal Memoir. New York: New American Library, 1966, p. 20—

He was particularly fond of crows. He said their caw-caw was really ha-ha. They were laughing at us. He would dance his little dance and pace the deck of the Gaivota with his bantam swagger and laugh back at the laughing crows: "Ha haha."

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