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Updated: June 10, 2025
Have you sayn him, Tom, at all he wor in the thick of the foightin' jist now summat about heres?"
His mother observed it. "But what you need, Jim," she went on, "is to be takin' a tuck in yoursilf. Look at the Gineral. Does he go foightin' in toimes of peace? That he don't. Will you look at the Gineral, Jim?" Now Pat and Mike had been instructed to look at the General as their pattern. This appeal was placing Jim alongside of his two big brothers.
"I riverince the man, for there's few can beat him sober. Knocked Patsy into hospital an' him foightin' dhrunk! Faith, he must be another Oirish gintleman himself, indade." "He's a Scotchman and was middle-weight champion of India last year," rejoined Dam, and moistened his block of pipe-clay again in the most obvious, if least genteel, way.
Big and straight he walks, a-wearin' his plug hat, and old and young is plazed to meet him. Well, his business is done. There's no more foightin'. But he was a brave foighter! My Tim saw him at it more'n wanst. Tim was a long way behind the Gineral, but Tim, he done his duty, too. Sure some has to be behoind, and if that's your place, 'Make that place respicted, says I."
When he had a few drinks, he'd walk restlessly to and fro outside the shanty, swinging his right arm across in front of him with elbow bent and hand closed, as if he had a head in chancery, and muttering, as though in explanation to himself "Oi must be walkin' or foightin'! Oi must be walkin' or foightin'! Oi must be walkin' or foightin'!"
His very nature seemed belligerent. "The trouble with you, Jim," she said, "is that you'd iver go foightin' in toimes of peace. Foight when foightin's to be done, and the rest of the toime look plissant loike the Gineral." "I ain't foightin' in times of peace any more," responded little Jim confidentially. "I ain't licked a boy for three weeks. Mebbe I won't lick any one all summer."
"Then he turned, and I saw he was a boy about your age, with a face like a pink moon. "He came at me like a man, flashing his knife. "'Here! who are you for? says I. "'Whoy, mesalf! says he. "'But what you at? says I. "'Whoy, foightin! says he. "'Who? says I. "'Whoy, the nearest! says he, and smacks at me. "Then Knapp tripped him from behind, and he was our prisoner....
"I said dot I vould be as goot a sby as vot Tim Murphies vould be, see? und I vill stand me by dot statements, alretty." "Wull, Oi have not said thot Oi would make a good spy, Dootchy," said Tim, "so you wouldn't have to be much in thot line to aquil me. But whin it comes to foightin', now, it's mesilf belaves Oi have yez bate, Fritz, me bye."
Sturdy Mike as he spoke cast an encouraging look on his favorite brother, who laid by his frown and put on at once an air of importance. "I'm goin' to be a foightin' man loike the Gineral," he announced pompously. "Well, well," cried the widow. "I'm gettin' old fast. You'll all be growed up in a few minutes." And then they all laughed.
It is a personal question which every man must meet squarely for himself not for his neighbor. I am not afraid of whisky. I am not opposed to it, as an issue. In fact, I respect it, for, personally, it has given me one peach of a scrap and we are quits." The old man listened with interest. "Ye c'n no more kape a McKim from foightin' thin ye c'n kape a dacoit from staylin," he chuckled.
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