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Updated: June 14, 2025
"'Tis that bad Pierre who should be comin', yes. Wait till I get my hands about his ears." "Pierre's too big to have his ears boxed. I don't wonder he hates it. I think I would would box back again if anybody treated me to that indignity." "Pst. Pouf! you are you, and Pierre is Pierre; and as long as he is in the world and I am, if his ears need boxin', I shall box them. I, his mother."
'T ain't what a fella gets done to him that counts. It's what he does to the other guy, good or bad. Now, take them martyrs what my pal Billy used to talk about. They was always standin' 'round gettin' burned and punctured with arrers, and lengthened out and shortened up when they ought to been takin' boxin' lessons or sords or somethin'. Huh! I never took much stock in them.
"Jimmy," said Samson, "if it's ever known in Prencess Anne as I 'spect it never will be, fur we're in bad hands, neighbor dar'll be a laugh instid of a cry, fur ole boxin' Samson, dat was kidnapped an' fetched to jail by a woman!" "You licked by a woman, Samson?" "Yes, Jimmy, a woman all by herseff frowed me down, tied my hands an' feet, an' brought me to dis garret.
They give each other lick for lick as fast an' as steady as they could stand to it. 'Rastlin', borin' in, boxin' all was alike. The one was just as good as t'other. An' both willin' to the very last. "When Ally Bazan calls it a draw, they gits up and wobbles toward each other an' shakes hands, and Hardenberg he says: "'Stroke, I thanks you a whole lot for as neat a go as ever I mixed in.
He worried me 'nd threatened me 'nd tried ter kill me with a knife, 'f I'd shot him then, nobody'd said nuthin', but I waited 'nd then I got scared, thot he'd kill me, 'nd one day I shot him. I was put in th' pen, then I was sent t' the chain gang 'nd set t' boxin' trees f'r turpentine. Saw a man flogged day I got thar. Sed I'd never git whipped if work would save me.
Come in with me, Shorty, on a half int'rest, splittin' fifty-fifty." "Too big a gamble, Hunk," says I. "I've seen more money dropped on ring shows than " "But we carry a pair of boxin' kangaroos," he breaks in eager, "that pulls an act they go nutty over. And our tribe of original wild Bush people has never been shown this side of Melbourne."
Her words broke the spell. The vulgar accent gave him a shudder. "Don't you hear a bell ringing?" he said, with dual significance. "Nosir," said Mary Ann ingenuously. "I'd yer it in a moment if there was. I yer it in my dreams, I'm so used to it. One night I dreamt the missus was boxin' my yers and askin' me if I was deaf and I said to 'er "
"One of the things I am going to do, after the Magic works and before I begin to make scientific discoveries, is to be an athlete." "We shall have thee takin' to boxin' in a week or so," said Ben Weatherstaff. "Tha'lt end wi' winnin' th' Belt an' bein' champion prize-fighter of all England." Colin fixed his eyes on him sternly. "Weatherstaff," he said, "that is disrespectful.
Here are we, regularly boxin' the compass, our jibboom pointin' first this way, then that, and then t'other, while that ship haven't veered nothin' to speak of all the time that I've been on deck; she've pointed steady to the south'ard ever since I first set eyes on her, and it seems to me that she've altered her bearin's a bit.
As fate would have it I happened into a boxin' booth, which was twopence, and there, as I was watchin' a bout, some one says at my elbow, ''Tis a noble art, deny it who can! An' that was your late husband. We'd never met afore to my knowledge, an' we never met again; but his words have come back to me more'n once, an' the free manly way he spoke 'em."
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