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Upon a man of sedentary occupation a prize-fight must have a very different effect from that which it will have upon men accustomed to the use of their fists. It is worth asking: What is this love of violence which moves the breast of the man of peace? What is this emotion which leads men to be heroic by proxy?
Morris asked. "It ain't a show exactly," Abe replied hastily; "it's a prize-fight." "A fight!" Morris cried. "That's an idea, ain't it? to take a customer to a fight." "I know it, Mawruss," Abe rejoined, "but you got to remember that the customer's name is also Burke. What for a show did you buy it tickets for?" Morris blushed. "Travvy-ayter," he murmured. "Travvy-ayter!" Abe replied.
Liza and Tom, with Sally and her young man, went off together to the nearest public-house, and as they drank beer, Harry, who was a great sportsman, gave them a graphic account of a prize-fight he had seen on the previous Saturday evening, which had been rendered specially memorable by one man being so hurt that he had died from the effects.
The latter were not quite a success; the entries were very few, and the meeting was nearly resolving itself into a prize-fight when one owner lodged a complaint against the winner. As a rule the race-meetings are better attended; every bush township has its meetings throughout the continent, and, in remote districts, there are men who entirely "live on the game."
To refresh a saving incredulity, he took a closer view of the messenger. Gower's habiliments were those of the 'queer fish, the admiral saw. But the meeting at Carlsruhe was recalled to him, and there was a worthy effort to remember it. 'Prize-fight! Greengrocer! Whitechapel! he rang the changes rather more moderately; till, swelling and purpling, he cried: 'Where's the husband?
The amazon stalked away to the kitchen, and soon returned with a tray laden with large pieces of meat half-raw: for so, as now, did the heroes of the prize-fight imagine they best sustained their hardihood and ferocity: they drew round the table with the eyes of famished wolves the meat vanished, the wine flowed. So leave we those important personages of classic life to follow the steps of Burbo.
The Duke di Marina coughed a stately cough, and shrugged his shoulders. "That first quarrel," he said, "as related in the Bible, was exceedingly vulgar. It must have been a kind of prize-fight. Ce n'etait pas fin." Gualdro laughed delightedly. "So like you, Marina!" he exclaimed, "to say that! I sympathize with your sentiments!
"I was going to say," he resumed more quietly, "that it's the first prize-fight I have ever attended and will be the last. But in point of fact there has been no fight." "Indeed, sir?" I heard the first lieutenant murmur compassionately. "The men did not turn up; neither they nor their trainers. The whole meeting, in fact, was what is vulgarly called a bilk. But where is Sir John?"
Words had arisen between Byron and Paradise on the subject of the Islington affair; and they had at last agreed to settle the dispute in the old English fashion. They had adjourned to a field, and fought fairly and determinedly until interrupted by the police, who were misled by appearances into the belief that the affair was a prize-fight.
"Oh, well, it's none of my business, and if the suckers want to bet their money on a prize-fight they're about due to lose it anyway." And so he continued permitting himself to be battered up four or five times a week at the hands of the pussy Mr. Brophy. He paid back the twenty the Lizard had loaned him, got his watch out of pawn, and was even figuring on a new suit of clothes.
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