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It was a grand prospect, and with the exception of Gentleman Dick, whose exultation was of a very mild and reserved order, the proprietors of the Chihuahua Claim behaved in a very undignified and unseemly way; Thompson and Jones organizing an impromptu sparring-match, and Old Platte standing indecorously on his head in a neighboring clump of bushes.
This was too much. "My word must satisfy you," said Algernon, rising. "So it shall. So it do," returned Sedgett, rising with him. "Will you give it in writing?" "I won't." "That's blunt. Will you come and have a look at a sparring-match in yond' brown booth, sir?" "I am going back to London." "London and the theayter that's the fun, now, ain't it!" Sedgett laughed.
Speckle, however, was a bird of spirit, and he used to peck at Tip-Top; so they would sometimes have a regular sparring-match across poor Brown-Eyes, who was a meek, tender little fellow, and would sit winking and blinking in fear while his big brothers quarrelled.
As soon as the doctor's back was turned, Allan left his place at the table, and appealed to his friend, with that irresistible heartiness of manner which had always found its way to Midwinter's sympathies, from the first day when they met at the Somersetshire inn. "Now the sparring-match between you and the doctor is over," said Allan, "I have got two words to say on my side.
Jacky breathed hard and looked upon the young sailor-lad with a deep reverential awe, feeling that he was in the presence of a real Jack the Giant-killer. "He runn'd away!" said Jacky in amazement. "Did you hit him hard?" "Not with my fists; they ain't big enough for that yet. We've only had a sparring-match with words and legs."
This was too much. "My word must satisfy you," said Algernon, rising. "So it shall. So it do," returned Sedgett, rising with him. "Will you give it in writing?" "I won't." "That's blunt. Will you come and have a look at a sparring-match in yond' brown booth, sir?" "I am going back to London." "London and the theayter that's the fun, now, ain't it!" Sedgett laughed.
Seward the "bottle- holder" as it was facetiously said about this sparring-match for breath was with Alexander Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell, of Alabama, on board of the River Queen, off Fort Monroe. The discussion lasted four hours, but, though on friendly terms, as "between gentlemen," resulted in nothing.
Blimber's establishment for the first time, we would gladly have witnessed the sparring-match, as one may say, on the very threshold, between Mrs. Pipchin the Ogress in bombazeen and the weak-eyed young man-servant who opens the door! Pipchin at once takes it into her head, is inspired by impudence, and snaps at accordingly. Of this we saw nothing, however, in the Reading. We heard nothing of Mrs.
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