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Also he valued himself for that a favorite dish with him was raw meat chopped fine with peppers and oil. Storri's education which was wide did not suffice to cover up in him the barbarian, videlicet, the Tartar which was wider; and when a trifle uplifted of drink, it was his habit to brag profoundly in purring, snarling, half-challenging tones.
"I'll lay for him up Fort Sumner way," he told his fellow-wolves, nor did he take the trouble to lower his voice because he saw several cow-boys from neighboring outfits among his auditors. It was a tradition among those who lived by the forty-five thus to brag and then make good.
There had been a pretty run, very fast, with a kill, as there will be sometimes in cub-hunting in October, though as a rule, of all sports, cub-hunting is the sorriest. Ralph had ridden his favourite horse Brag, and Mr. Pepper had taken out, just to try him, a little animal of his that he had bought, as he said, quite at haphazard.
"I'd have it out with her," said he. "She called you a bully and a brag." "Out with her?" cried Macavoy. "How can ye have it out wid a woman?" "Fight her," said Pierre pensively. "Fight her? fight her? Holy smoke! How can you fight a woman?" "Why, what do you fight?" asked Pierre innocently. Macavoy grinned in a wild kind of fashion. "Faith, then, y'are a fool.
"The Normans," adds the author, "were very fine in their apparel, and delicate in their diets; they could not feed but upon dainties, neither could their meat digest without wine at each meal; yet would they not serve in the marches or any remote place against the enemy, neither would they lie in garrison to keep any remote castle or fort, but, would be still about their lord's side to serve and guard his person; they would be where they might be full and have plenty; they could talk and brag, swear, and stare, and, standing in their own reputation, disdain all others."
'What in the name of wonder can this fellow be! a madman? a highwayman? a cut-throat? If he had not scoured off so fast, we'd have seen who was in most danger, he or I. I never nearer death than I have been to-night! I hope I may be no nearer to it for a score of years to come if so, I'll be content to be no farther from it. My stars! a pretty brag this to a stout man pooh, pooh!
As for mind there is only the mind of one man; a large one in many ways; in others a small one, because it considers its owner alone. "But we of England have refused to be stripped of all that we hold dear, at the will of a foreign upstart. We have fought for years, and we still are fighting, without any brag or dream of glory, for the rights of ourselves and of all mankind.
"Then, you don't know your course, it appears?" "O, faix I knew it iligant, as long as your honor was before me." "But you don't know your course back?" "Why, indeed, not to say rightly all out, your honor." "Can't you steer?" said the captain. "The divil a betther hand at the tiller in all Kinsale," said Barny, with his usual brag. "Well, so far so good," said the captain.
Life invests itself with inevitable conditions, which the unwise seek to dodge, which one and another brags that he does not know; that they do not touch him; but the brag is on his lips, the conditions are in his soul. If he escapes them in one part, they attack him in another more vital part.
“There is nothing,” he said, “in fighting a fellow who is altogether out of condition, and has a very small amount of pluck to make up for it. I was convinced when we first met that he had nothing behind his brag, though I certainly did not expect to beat him as easily as I did. Well, I hope we shall be good friends in future.
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