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When their owners have nothing else to do, they devote themselves to training these birds; or they try to find some one willing to match them in a contest. The buildings where these fights take place are to be found in every town and village. They are considered next in importance to the cathedral and the town hall, and more important than the schools.
Then it would be more fun." "Yes," said Freddie. "We could build snow forts and have snowball fights. I wish it would snow hard." "So do I, so we could ride down hill," said Nan. "Is your big bob nearly done, Bert?" "No, Charley and I have quite a lot of things to do on it yet, but we're going to work every night after school now, and it will soon be finished."
His triumph was attained on March 19, 1918. Between that time and his death he had engaged in several fights against German airmen, causing them to flee.
Creede had seen men slugged before, in saloon rows and the rough fights that take place around a town, but never had he seen a single blow suffice the man's head go back, his knees weaken, and his whole body collapse as if he had been shot. If he had been felled like a bull in the shambles that goes down in spite of his great strength, Jasper Swope could not have been more completely stunned.
Their fights were mostly informal scuffles, on and off in a flash, and conducted with none of the ceremony which I have read of concerning the fights of English boys. It was believed that some of the fellows knew how to box, and all the fellows intended to learn, but nobody ever did.
Yes, I know, I know very well, that it is madness to seek to turn the waters of the river back to their source, and that it is only the ignorant who seek to find in the past a remedy for their present ills; but I know too that everyone who fights for any ideal whatever, although his ideal may seem to lie in the past, is driving the world on to the future, and that the only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
The stage was never more than an artificial taste with them; their delight was the delight of barbarians, in spectacles, in athletic exercises, in horse-races and chariot-races, in the combats of wild animals in the circus, combats of men with beasts on choice occasions, and, as a rare excitement, in fights between men and men, when select slaves trained as gladiators were matched in pairs to kill each other.
"That means a hill, or an island, or a hill in an island," whispered Bickley to me. "Who is your God?" asked Bastin again. The point seemed one upon which they were a little doubtful, but at last the chief answered, "Oro. He who fights." "In other words, Mars," said Bickley. "I will give you a better one," said Bastin in the same slow fashion.
At first in my replies I found a certain satisfaction in recounting my defeats; for in fighting on I seemed to be proving my superior worth and strength, and I became almost boastful of my repeated failures. But the glamour of defeat wears off as the cause for which one fights becomes more hopeless, and after a month I seemed farther than ever from attaining my desire.
Then Saint George comes in, and after a great deal of bragging he fights the "most dreadful battle that ever was known," his adversary being the knight "just come from Turkey-land," with the inevitable result that the Turkish knight falls. This brings in the Doctor, who suggests the following remedies:
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