slug-and-come-again

Updated: April 30, 2025

After that it was slug-and-come-again with both of them, each getting wilder as round succeeded round, but neither man obtaining much advantage. Twice it was Crothers who went down; then he discovered a soft spot in Hassan's ribs, and after that he kept the black man busy on the desperate defensive. There was no doubt of the end, then, barring accidents.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East