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"Little Leroy the Cabin Boy" is a fictional character often referenced in jokes and humorous anecdotes. The character is typically portrayed as a young, naive sailor or ship crew member who finds himself in comical or embarrassing situations. The name is commonly used as a punchline in jokes or stories with a playful or risqué tone.
Translating Harding's Tinkers to Hungarian I've stumbled upon this phrase too, and found several a beer-songs / limericks that could explain the conversation: Little Leroy could be the name of the cabin-boy mentioned in these songs who was cautious enough to "packed / lined his a** with broken glass" as to avoid being raped by his horny shipmates. (Though I couldn't find any of them where the cabin-boy's actually called little Leroy.) These poems / songs pictures (rather vulgar) life on a ship, from the story of Columbus to the North Atlantic Squadron's song and more.
As for those not being familiar with Harding's book, the conversation is between a freshly shaven old man and his grandson - the latter telling him that he looks pretty like Little Leroy the cabin-boy, and the grandfather answering that he was a "cautious little nipper" - this phrase is included in each of the above mentioned limericks.
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