The White Feather

ered up to receive another bl

do," said

sturdy man in a tweed suit. He was waving Albert back, and Albert

aid that worthy, mild

o well not to come interfering in what didn't concern

urself in," added

ranger. "You go away. I don't

touched the back of Albert's wrist gently with the palm of his right hand, and Albert, turning round in a circle, e

, as if he were making the ob

aid one of Albert's

ell. His freck

the tweed suit, whose conversation

the advice. His friend

," said

ed may beware of thee. Always counter back when you guard. When a man shows you his right like that

, th

you see a man coming to hit you with his right like that, d

ore. His ear smarted horribly, and when he put up a hand and felt it the pain was so great that he could barely refrain from uttering a cry. But, however physically battered he might be, he was feeling happier

garded him

I make it. I should put you at ten stone-say ten stone three. Ca

eyes at this surp

That's the secret of fighting. Always keep going on. Never give in. You know what Shakes

said

evan enthusiastically. "There was ring-cr

speare had written some

instead, and, my Golly! it nearly knocked a passage through me. Just where that fellow hit you, sir, he hit me. It was just at the end of the round, and I went back to my corner. Jim Blake was seconding me. 'What's this, Jim?' I says, 'is the man mad, or what?' 'Why,' he says, 'he's

tion was that

contest, sir, for seven-fifty aside and t

his face, in the shape of lumps and scars, he might have been a curate. His face looked tough, and his eyes harboured always a curiously alert, questioning expression, as if he were perpetually "sizing up" the person he was addressing. But ot

ill fight?

tting on, as the saying is, and it don't do to keep at

At that moment he felt himself capable of fighting the world and beating it. The small point, that Albert had knocked him out of time in less than a minute, did not damp him at all. He had started on the

ouse boxing cups were competed for at Wrykyn. It would be a dramatic act of reparation to the house if he could win the Light-Weight cup for it. His imagination, jumping wide gaps, did not admit the possibility of his

ns as if he had heard them by so

but you don't know the game as yet. And boxing's a thing every one ought to know. Supposit

aged nor married, but

you'll get half murdered yourself. What you want to do is to learn to box, and then what happens? Why, as soon as he sees you shaping, he says to himself, 'Hullo, this chap knows too much for me. I'm

d if you'd teach me. I wonder if you could make me any good

how to shoot your left out straight, that's as good as six months' teac

hall I f

m weight match-at an inn up the river here. I daresay you know it, sir. Or any one would tell you where

very day," said Sheen. "

r, sir. You can't

have to go by boat, I suppose. It isn't far, is it? I've not been

said Bevan. "But it would be e

n't a b

of your friend

n fl

think. I'll turn up on Tuesday a

ood time. Then I'll say goo

om the one in which he had left it. He did not care

t Linton, and grinne

g at?" said Linton to himself. "I must

mitory looking-glass revealed no