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It was asserted, and by many conceded, that General Buell had a sufficient force to risk a fight. He was much blamed for the loss of Mumfordsville also.
A skirmish had taken place, but without serious consequences on either side, when the Snakes made overtures for peace, saying they did not want to fight them, that they were only enemies of the white man.
"Ah, he's to blame for that," Matt said. "But as for his hardness, that probably comes from his having had to make such a hard fight for what he wants to be in life. That hardens people, and brutalizes them, but somehow we mostly admire them and applaud them for their success against odds.
He frowned, and his eyes flashed anger at the strangers as he listened to their words. Siegfried, who had heard the strangers' words, cried eagerly, 'Fear not, O King, I and my warriors will fight for thee, even as afore-time we have done. Well pleased then seemed Gunther at the hero's words.
"You are a liar!" roared Herring, "and I'll bet that you are just as bad as this " That was as far as he got for in an instant Jack had knocked him down. There was great excitement among the boys in an instant and while the greater part of them sympathized with Jack, there were some who took sides with Herring and one of these now ejaculated: "Ha! if he wants to fight let him go at it fair.
They were neither of them likely to fight for honour and glory; at the same time, I had little doubt but they would blaze away at an enemy, when they knew that by failing to do so they would lose their scalps.
Make haste and grow big, and then if there are any Frenchmen left to fight, with any ships to fight in, you shall fight them, boy." This promise did not seem at all to satisfy Billy.
"What's all that soft-sawder about?" said Tom Bowles, somewhat falteringly. "Simply this: if in the fight between us I beat you, I ask you to promise before your neighbours that you will not by word or deed molest or interfere again with Miss Jessie Wiles." "Eh!" roared Tom. "Is it that you are after her?"
The fathers listened to the report, and allowed their countrymen in Cirta just to fight on as long as they pleased.
On this point, as an official of the fight, Referee Edgerton did not feel called upon to express an opinion. Farley, at his first glimpse of the waiting first classman, felt a chill of coming disaster. "Do you believe it?" "I surely do." "But Treadwell looks a whole lot more vast now that he's stripped."
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