The morning call., 1891-09-17
HIS LITTLE SCRAP.

In at Mott Haven the other day l met
young man who had just come OH traln,
He had black eye, his nose had received
an awful lam. and after patient lnYestlga-
zion of his right lower jaw, at his request, l
did not hesitate to tell him it was fractured.
When l asked the particulars Of the collision
and how many were killed he smiled lop-
iawed sort Of smile and said:
There wasn't any collision as l heard
of-at least not on the railroad"
"Then you've had row?"
ut was this way: Yesterday morning l
was around here looking for job when
man comes up to ne aud looks me all over,
and then asks if was a fighter. says that
l Was nothing to brag Of, though l knocked
the Erie KID out in five rounds, and tought
the Buffalo Rusher TO a standstill in seven.
"'What sort of a match does you want 10
makeP' says l.
"'Wall,5 says he, Pm a-liYin' up here
bit on farm, and I've got ooy hIIne% mn.5St
Dan'l He's a cheerful young man, Dan
is. but he's got 4 sWellIn' of the head about
prize fights He thinks he's the comm SUI
Ivan. and the craze is runnin' away with
him.
"'But what has to do with your bloomin'
son DAMP ,,,,
pass you off for an orphan picked up.
Then l wants you to put on the mltteus
with Dan and knock him all over the town.
ship and reduce the swelin' Of his head
"'FOr how much sugar.
"'Wan, il its a success l wont mind SlO
and your railroad fare and big boiled din
"'Wen, sir, it struck NE right and we
hoped on to u train and bOwled away. The
old man was chucklin, all the way home
over the way l was going to do uP his
bloomin Dan'l, and he gave me all the
pointers he could to make the job easier
We arrives aTter 4 while
90 And Daul was thereY
"'He was, sir. He proves to be six feet
high and to weigh about a ton. l suppose
l locked a bit lonesome, for the old man
winks me aside and says:
"'Never mind the size of him. He's big,
but slow and awkward, aud one tap on the
nose will grug him.'
And you put on the gloves?".
That's what We did. Dinner was hardly
over " hen Dan'l invited me out to the barn
to scrap bit. lie had an old set of gloves
and he could hardly wait 10 peel off. The
old man winks at me to play his bloomin'
child mluute or TWO, and then land hlm,
and proceeds accordingly"
Ibid DanI seem at all agitatel ?" l
asked.
"Neve1 a bit, sir. He was as cool as the
north side of an iceberg in January"
w 6llt
"Well, the old gent calls time on US and
we stepped out. l leads with my left after
elaIet, but doesn't get any. l swings my
right for his jaw, but it wasn't there. Had
better see the doctor, sr?"
Yes, later on. What followed? ?"
'Why. sir. the bluomin' innocent-hearted
Dan, who doesn't know a swing from an
mp er cut, wadeS into me. He drives me
all over the barn and back; he knocks me
10 the right ana the LETT; he lands all over
me, from the top of the head to the knees,
and by and by he swings for my jaw and
puts me to sleep"
" Knocked you out, eh ?"
" \ Is, sir; and so completely that when l
wakes up was lying half Il mile away be-
side the highway. l looks for Daniel, the
tender blossom, and he was down in the
bayfield,. l LOOKS for the old man as played
me against the field and he was sittiag on
the fence close by. When l wakes I'D he
says:
Poor mani sees that cyclone when it
hits you. but l couldn't save ye. I'm a con-
stable and down on trampS, and the best
thing You can do IS to maze a skip!'
- skps, sir, and takes the bumpers of a
fTeight-traIn to bring NE black eye and
battered nose aud broken jaw back home,
and want You to put 1t in the sporting
columns OF your paper that the undersigned,
which Is NE, You know, has gone a-TiSiting
Of his friends aud Is not open to any more
country engagements against unknowns until
he has the gate-money down IN his blOOmin'
poeket!'-M. Quad in \. \. Evening World.