opinion mr that there s half a stone of on him at this minute the young put his fingers on the assistant s upper arm then with his other hand on his wrist he bent the sharply and felt the as round and hard as a ball spring up under his fingers feel that said he the and felt it with an air of reverence good he ll do yet cried gentlemen said i think that you will acknowledge that i have been very patient with you i have listened to all that you have to say about my personal appearance and now i must really beg that you will have the goodness to tell me what is the matter they all sat down in their serious way that s easy done mr said the but before anything we had to wait and see whether in a way of there was green etc any need for us to say anything at all mr there is mr who has the same right to his opinion also a and one o the committee thinks the other way i thought him too light built and i think so now said the still tapping his prominent teeth with the metal head of his riding whip but happen he may pull through and he s a fine made chap so if you mean to back him mr which i do and you i ain t one to go back well i ll to my share of he purse and well i knew you would said for it would be new to find as a well then we make up the hundred for the stake among us and the fight stands � always the man is excuse all this rot mr said the university man in a genial voice we ve begun at the wrong end i know but we ll soon it out and i h e that you will see your way to in with our views in the first place you remember the man whom you knocked out this morning he is � the famous ted tm sure sir you may well be proud to have him in one round said the why it took lis the ten stone x champion a deal more trouble that before he put to sleep you ve done ne performance sir and happen you ll do a finer if give yourself the chance the i never heard of ted beyond seeing the name on a medicine said the assistant well you may take it from me that he s a said the you ve taught him a lesson that he needed for it was always a word and a blow with him and the word alone was worth five in a public court he won t be so ready now to shake his in the face of he meets however that s neither here nor there looked at them in bewilderment for goodness sake gentlemen tell me what it is you want me to do he cried we want you to fight better known as the master of but why because ted was to have fought him next saturday he was the champion of the coal and the other was the master of the iron folk down at the we d matched our man for a purse of a hundred against the but you ve our man and he can t face such a battle with a two inch cut at the back of his head there s only one thing to be done sir and that is for you to take his place if you can ted you may the master of ci but if you don t we re done for there s no one else who is in the street with him in this district it s twenty two gloves rules and a decision on points if you fight to the finish for a moment the absurdity of the thing drove every other thought out of s head but then there came a sudden a hundred pounds � all he wanted to complete his education was lying there ready i the green flag etc to his hand if only that hand were strong enough to pick it up he had thought bitterly that morning that there was no market for his strength but here was one where his muscle might earn more in an hour than his brains in a year but a chill of doubt came over hint how can i fight for the coal said he i am not connected with them eh lad but thou art cried old we ve got it down in and it s clear enough anyone connected with the coal doctor is the club doctor thou art his assistant what more can they want yes that s right enough said the it would be a very sporting thing of you mr if you would come to our help when we are in such a hole of course you might not like to take the hundred pounds but i have no doubt that in the case of your winning we could arrange that it should take the form of a watch or piece of plate or any other shape which might suggest itself to you you see you are responsible for our having lost our champion so we really feel that we haye a claim upon you give me a moment gentlemen it is very unexpected i am afraid the doctor would never consent to my going � in fact i am sure that he would not but he need never know � not before the fight at we are not bound to give the name of our man so long as he is within the weight limits on the day of the fight that is all that concerns anyone the adventure and the profit would either of them have attracted the two combined were irresistible the master 