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Between the two stalwart men who fronted one another, stripped to

trousers and shoes, there was not so much to choose Woodhull perhaps

had the better of it by a few pounds in weight, and forsooth looked less

slouchy out of his clothes than in the and sinewy

type of er than his rival, himself was round and slender,

thin of flank, a trace squarer and fuller of shoulder His ar bands of or

of youth and life in the open air His eye was fixed all the time on his

man He did not speak or turn aside, but walked on in

There were no preliminaries, there was no delay In a flash the Saxon

ordeal of cohters , body to body, in a

whirling , and such

fashion of fight was unknown in that region, the offensive being the

incidental The thud of fist on face,

the discoloration that rose under the savage blows, the blood that