OLD NETTLES IS SHAVED BY TWO OF THE SKELETON CREW.
A barber’s has been often, and very wisely, called a “gossiping shop.”
If this is true of tonsorial establishments in town, it is particularly of such places in a village.
In a hamlet, or small town, the barber knows all the news, the latest joke, and the newest scandal.
There is nothing that he does not know, in fact.
No item ever escapes the “professor” who cuts your hair, or shaves you.
Thus thought old Nettles, the tavern-keeper, a few days after the eventful and dreadful conflict between Wildfire Ned and the Skeleton Crew, on the ocean.
For many miles around there were wild rumours of the ferocious battle which had taken place.
But no two persons had the same tale to tell.
Some said that Death-wing had killed young Ned Warbeck.