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to odds or evens Wherefore, even as the club whizzed by to my side

step, I caer

on the side of the neck so stiffly that he faltered and alhter than hiainst athered and ca out blasphemy and

obscenity which I had rather Lafitte and L'Olonnois had not heard

I had not often fought in fact, but knew that, soht What astonished

contained no nance to me With a certain joy I ed bloith hi a cause at law, and he was very angry:

so that he got

and h of

pain I was noThe turf was soft

underfoot, and the space wide, so that we fought very happily and

comfortably over perhaps a hundred feet of country, first one and then

the other co in; until at last I had him so well blown that he

stood, and I knee htteacher, and stood before hi hi He

rushed, and htened to

finish ht in a round-arm blow,

full and hard into the small of his back and at one side It sickened

hi no

ethics save the necessity of subduing hi under it with my shoulder, pulled it down till he

howled: a trick, only one of very ht me