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Updated: June 27, 2025
"But you don't have the automobile on the stage?" "Oh, no! Aurora just comes in in her automobile rig and talks about her 'bubble. Mercury has a bicycle; he's a trick rider, and does all sorts of stunts. And Venus is a summer girl, dressed up in a stunning gown and a Paris hat. And Hercules has a punching-bag to make himself stronger, you know.
For the sake of the lad we had better sacrifice the guest-room if necessary, and make way for the punching-bag and the home billiard-table or pool-table; here is a magnet of innocent skilful play to draw him off the street and to bring the boy and his friends under his own roof.
"You don't realise my accomplishments with the punching-bag." "So you mean to resist?" "Yes, I do. If I were going to surrender at once, I might as well go off to church with you now." "Wenniston church!" he said promptly. "I'll order the Mercedes." She laughed, lazily settling herself more snugly by the fire. "Suppose it were our fire?" she smiled.
Once inside, he slid his sole over the hayseed that covered the floor; it was no slipperier than the carpet of needles in that glade of the evergreens where he had practised daily with his improvised punching-bag since the second week in July. A quick glance about photographed on his brain the details of the arena in which he was so soon to play the gladiator.
Entering a big, barnlike room he found Mr. Bates, clad only in trunks and canvas shoes, wreaking dire punishment upon a punching-bag merely by way of amusement; and Mr.
Early in the sessions at the gymnasium, Buck had introduced his pupil to boxing-glove and punching-bag, his own special passions, and now his orders ran that the Doc should put on the gloves with any of the Mercuries that were willing. Most of the Mercuries were willing, and on these early Saturday nights, Stark's rocked with the falls of Dr. Queed.
Now, however, he drove in as though Dolph Gage were a punching-bag. "Stand up, man, and fight as though you had some sand in you!" Tom ordered. "Get up steam, and defend yourself." "I have had enough," Gage gasped. Indeed, his face looked as though he had. "Are you a baby?" Reade demanded contemptuously. "Can't you fight with anything but your tongue!"
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