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Updated: June 22, 2025
Our boxing-match had just concluded, when the drum-major entered, and produced the proceeds of my clothes; viz., £1 1s. 6d. for a new hat, coat, waistcoat, and leathers: a fair price, some said; while others thought they ought to have fetched thirty shillings; but I was very well satisfied, and stood hot rolls and butter to all around, not forgetting my antagonist, who shook hands, and said it was the first time he had ever been beaten, and that he would some day, in friendship, have another trial.
Two hundred yards farther we perceived a multitude of individuals swarming around another erection of the same description, but without a roof, and I spurred on my horse, believing we should be in time to witness some cockfighting or a boxing-match; but my American fellow-travellers, better acquainted with the manners and customs of the natives, declared it was the "Court-House."
"What, not fast on Friday!" cried Bateman; "we always did so most rigidly at Oxford." "It does you credit," answered Campbell; "but I am of Cambridge." "But what do you say to Rubrics and the Calendar?" insisted Bateman. "They are not binding," answered Campbell. "They are, binding," said Bateman. A pause, as between the rounds of a boxing-match.
Crawford has a box to the fight to-night, and he thought perhaps you'd like to go along with us." "A boxing-match?" "Ten rounds, light-weights; and fast boys, too. Both Irish." "Really, I shall be glad to go." "Webb?" "Yes." "Never use that word 'really' to me. It's un-Irish." Thomas heard a chuckle before the receiver at the other end clicked on the hook.
Only we had now arranged to simulate a boxing-match, which we presented to the beat of the gansa, and to the applause of our gallery. A runner came in while we were here, carrying a note in a cleft stick, the native substitute for a pocket. In dress and appearance, the Andangle people differed in no wise from those of Kiangan.
For a few minutes Simpson acted strictly on the defensive, retreating before his antagonist and guarding himself from the sledge-hammer blows. I noticed that he was very smart on his feet always a good sign in a boxing-match and that he was cunningly drawing Wolff uphill after him. Wolff began to breathe hard and to perspire; I felt that the barrow might not be wanted after all.
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