welter-weights

Updated: May 2, 2025

Morgan's cab horse casts a shoe every time the old man sticks his head out the window. Me! Well, I'm in trainin' down the Street. The old man's goin' to put a seat on the Stock Exchange in my stockin' my next birthday. But it all sounds like a lemon to me. What I like is golf and yachtin' and er well, say a corkin' fast ten-round bout between welter-weights with walkin' gloves."

O. Henry - Strictly business: more stories of the four million