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"Tell 'un to go an' larn hisself to grohiskers fust!" cried a

second

"Ay, to be sure, 'e aren't got so rinned a

third

"Stay!" cried the one-eyedup at me beneath his

hand "Is they whiskers a-peepin' at me over 'is cravat or do my

eyes deceive hter at reatly exasperated

me, for I was, at that time, painfully conscious of my bare lips

and chin It was, therefore, with an effort that Ite," said I, "to accept your conditions and fight

you--for a guinea--or any other entleman with the watery eye, who can nalanced slowly

round, and, sitting down, buried his face in his tankard

"Coo you seeht; well--I'm your man," and with the words I

stripped off my coat and laid it across a chairback

This apparent willingness on s, for I will not here disguise the fact that the prospect