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This indirect effect goes almost unequivocally in the direction of furthering a survival of the predatory temperament and habits; and this is true even with respect to those variants of the sporting life which the higher leisure-class code of proprieties proscribes; as, e.g., prize-fighting, cock-fighting, and other like vulgar expressions of the sporting temper.

There were pictures of Frederick Douglass and of Peter Jackson, of all the lesser lights of the prize-fighting ring, of all the famous jockeys and the stage celebrities, down to the newest song and dance team. The most of these photographs were autographed and, in a sense, made a really valuable collection. In the back room there was a piano, and tables were placed around the wall.

The letter was written on the letterhead of the Beatrice Corn Mills, Incorporated, Beatrice, Nebraska, and in the upper left-hand corner, in small type, appeared "James Torrance, Sr., President and General Manager," and this is what he read: Dear Jim You have graduated I didn't think you would with honors in football, baseball, prize-fighting, and five thousand dollars in debt.

First of all there was the man of the house, Jonathan Barnes, a tall, slouching, flash-looking native; he'd been a little in the horse-racing line, a little in the prize-fighting line enough to have his nose broken, and was fond of talking about 'pugs' as he'd known intimate a little in the farming and carrying line, a little in every line that meant a good deal of gassing, drinking, and idling, and mighty little hard work.

And surely fools do not become wise, or worth listening to, merely by the fact of their banding together. A 'public opinion' on any matter except football, prize-fighting, and perhaps cricket, is merely ridiculous by whatever brutal physical powers it may be enforced ridiculous as a town council's opinion upon art; and a nation is merely a big fool with an army.

"Enormous!" said the girl, "and as hard as iron. What a prize-fighter you'd have made!" "He don't want to do no prize-fighting," said Mrs. Jobling, recovering her speech; "he's a respectable married man." Mr. Jobling shook his head over lost opportunities. "I'm too old," he remarked. "He's forty-seven," said his wife. "Best age for a man, in my opinion," said the girl; "just entering his prime.

"Well, Mawruss," Abe cried as he greeted his partner on Monday morning, "how did it went?" "How did what went?" Morris asked. "The prize-fighting." Morris shook his head. "Not for all the cloak and suit trade on the Pacific slope," he said finally, "would I go to one of them things again.

Come on in. What'll you have? Let me tell you something, Paul, a good one ". More drinks, cigars, tales magnificent tales of successes made, "great shows" given, fights, deaths, marvelous winnings at cards, trickeries in racing, prize-fighting; the "dogs" that some people were, the magnificent, magnanimous "God's own salt" that others were.

"Dick told only his brothers and his chums of what had occurred, but the news leaked out that a fight was on, and Saturday afternoon found at least twenty cadets in the secret and on their way to witness the "mill," as those who had read something about prize-fighting were wont to call the contest.

He doesn't, on the average, know much about books; nor did he ever hear of the Etruscan Inscriptions or the Pyramidal Policy of the Ancient Egyptians. He takes a grim delight in smashing the English language into microscopic atoms at a single blow. He is more fond of women, horses, and prize-fighting than is good for him.

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