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It was the world old struggle between patrician and proletarian

Sanderson was an all-round athlete and a boxer of no mean order This

was not his first battle His quick eye showed him from David's

aard attitude, that his opponent was in no way his equal from a

scientific standpoint He looked for the easy victory that science,

nine times out of ten, can wrest from unskilled brute force

For, perhaps, half a minute the combatants stood thus

Then, with lowered head and outstretched ar the on-set Before David could

recover hi into the

country-man's face

The bloas delivered with all the trained force the athlete possessed

and sent David reeling against the rough wall of the house

Such a bloould have ended the fight then and there for an ordinary

ish blood to white heat

Again he rushed

This time he was more successful

True, Sanderson partially succeeded in avoiding the sledge-haly on the left shoulder

nu for the moment the whole arht ar

David on the face He sank to his knees, like a wounded bull, but was