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The last antagonist was a boxer, and when he saw the Kentuckian advance toward him empty-handed, he smiled and accepted the gauge of battle. In weight and reach and practice, he knew that he had the advantage, and, now that it was man to man, he realized that there was no danger of interference from Horton. But Samson knew nothing of boxing.
Still there were some plucky ones among the dozen or so in this pack, and they knew how to fight bears when they had them on the run. But they were bothered to know what to do with these big fellows, sitting here with their backs against a tree and a noisy pig in one forearm while they used the other like a terrible boxer.
"Is he a boxer?" "He would like to be. Out West, nobody could touch him. He's in the championship class. But he has been pottering about New York for a month without being able to get a fight.
The magistrate nodded, and Lamh Laudher immediately took his leave. In a short time the intelligence spread. From the sovereign it passed to his clerk, from the clerk to the other members of the corporation, and, ere an hour, the town was in a blaze with the intelligence. "Did you hear what's reported?" was the general question. Lamh Laudher Oge has challenged the Dead Boxer!
Had he been in his old viceroyalty at Tientsin, this Boxer war could not have occurred. That its fury was limited to the northern belt of provinces was owing to the wisdom of Chang and Liu, the great satraps of Central China who engaged to keep their provinces in order, if not attacked by foreigners. I called on the old statesman in the summer of 1901, after the last of the treaties was signed.
These things were instinctive from long habit; he prepared himself to meet a situation just as an expert gunman draws his forty-five just as a scientific boxer blocks a blow without wasting an instant in thinking. It was thus with him when Ed Lyle and Cap Stilwell waylaid him on the road to the Empire ranch over near Port Huachuca.
At the same time American privateers ranged the seas and brought in British merchantmen. In 1813 there was a minor naval warfare on Lakes Erie, Ontario, and Champlain, Two small armed vessels, the "Peacock" and the "Boxer," were captured at sea by the Americans; and the ship "Essex," under Captain Porter, ranged the Pacific and captured thirteen vessels,
"Mrs. Boxer, my son is dead!" said Simon, in a hollow voice. "And a good thing it is, then, sir!" "For shame, woman!" said Morton, indignantly. "Hey-dey! sir! whom have we got here?" "One," said Simon, sternly, "whom you will treat with respect. He brings me a blessing to lighten my loss. One harsh word to this child, and you quit my house!"
That he was so we afterwards ascertained from one of the farm-labourers who had cautiously followed the Kentuckians. The sun at length rose, when Mr Tidey insisted on going out to learn whether they had actually taken their departure. To this my father consented, and the Dominie set off with his rifle, accompanied by Boxer.
"What they see in 'im!" whispered the astounded Mr. Thompson to his wife. "And did you marry the beautiful girl in the photograph?" demanded Mrs. Boxer, in trembling accents. "I did," said her husband. "Hussy," cried Mrs. Boxer. "I married her," said Mr. Boxer, considering "I married her at Camberwell, in eighteen ninety-three." "Eighteen ninety-three!" said his wife, in a startled voice.
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