Character with the wooden leg

[Skyedriver]

Trying to remember who the character in fiction was that you could hear him coming by the sound of his leg.
Captain Ahab had a wooden leg but I think the main "sound" in that book was the clock. Or was that Peter Pan?
In Treasure Island, LJ Siler has a wooden leg but I cannot find reference to the tapping sound.

Thanks

[Monkeylegend]

Captain Peg Leg.

[bunchofkeys]

[manwithbeard]

Are you perhaps thinking of Blind Pew from Treasure Island? He didnt have a wooden leg but being blind found his way by tapping a walking cane/stick.
Blind Pew is the pirate who delivers the Black Spot to Billy Bones at the Admiral Benbow Inn.
As a young child, i watched a BBC serialisation of Treasure Island (1957?) and was frightened by Blind Pew.

[FazerBoy]

manwithbeard said:

Are you perhaps thinking of Blind Pew from Treasure Island? He didnt have a wooden leg but being blind found his way by tapping a walking cane/stick.
Blind Pew is the pirate who delivers the Black Spot to Billy Bones at the Admiral Benbow Inn.
As a young child, i watched a BBC serialisation of Treasure Island (1957?) and was frightened by Blind Pew.

Yes, that’s the one I thought of too…

[Speed1283]

FazerBoy said:

Yes, that’s the one I thought of too…

First thought that came into my mind too.

[tertius]

Or Bush in the Hornblower novels? After he lost his foot of course. There is a scene in The Commodore when Hornblower is annoyed by a regular tapping noise that turns out to be Bush’s wooden leg on the deck.