The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
HIS LHTLE SCRAP.
He Anticipated a Soft Snap but Daniel
Knew His Trade.

He Anticipated a Soft snap put Oahlei
Knew His Trade.
Up at Mott Haven the other day l met q
young man who had just come off train.
He had a black eye, his nose had received
an awful jam, and after patient investi,
CATION of his right lower jaw, at his re-
! quest, did not hesitate to tell him 1t was
| fractured When / asked the particulars
of the collision and how many were killed
be smiled lop jawed sort of smile and
said:
"There wasn't any collision as heard
of-at least not on the railroad"
''Then you've had a row."
at was this way: Yesterday morning
was around here looking for a job when a
man comes up to me and looks me all over,
and then asks if was fighter. l says
that | was nothing to brag of, though
! knocked the Erie Kid cut in five rounds,
and fought the Buffalo Rusher to stand
still in seven.
"'What sort of a match does you want
to maker says l.
| WALL says he, Pm alvin up here a
| bit on farm, and Eve got boy named
Dan'l. He's cheerful yonng man, Dan'l
is, but he's got g swellin of the head about
prize fights. He thinks he's the comm
Sullivan, and the craze is runnin away
with him.
"'But what has to do with your bloom
in son Dan'l?
I wants you to go home with me. I'll
pass you off for an orphan l picked up.
Then l wants you to put on the mittens
with Dan'l and knock him all over the
township and reduce the swellin of his
head
For how much sugar?
"'Wall, if it's a success / won't mind
ten dollars and your railroad fare and
big boiled dinner
'Well, sir, it struck me right, and we
hoped onto train and bowled away. The
old man was chucklin all the way home
over the way l was goin to do up his
bloomin Dan'l, and he gave me all the
pointers he could to make the job easier.
We arrives arter awhile"
"And Dan'l was there"
"He was, sir. He proves to be six feet
high and to weigh about a ton. suppose
looked bit lonesome, fer the old man
winks me aside and says:
"'Never mind the size of him. He's big,
but slow and awkward, and one tap on the
nose will grog him.
"And you put on the gloves?"
"That's what we did Dinner was hardly
over when Dan'l invited me out to the
barn to scrap bit. He had an old set of
gloves and he could hardly wait to peel
off The old man winks at me to play his
bloomin child minute or two, and then
land him, and proceeds accordingly"
did Dan'l seem at all agitated?" /
asked.
n civ IlaV al In
north side of an iceberg in January"
"Wellf"
"Well, the old gent calls time on us and
we stepped out. / leads with my left after
claret, but doesn't get any. l swings my
right for his jaw, but it wasn't there. Had
better see the doctor, sir?"
'Yes, later on. What followed?"
"Why, sir, the bloomin innocent hearted
Dan, who doesn't know a swing from an
upper cut, wades into me. He drives me
all over the barn and back; he knocks me
to the right and the left; he lands all over
me, from the top of the he to the knees,
and by and by he swings my jaw and
puts me to Sleep"
Knocked you out, ehp'
"Yes, sir; and so completely that when
! wakes up l was lying half a mile away
beside the highway. | looks for Daniel,
the tender blossom, and he was down in
the hay field. looks for the old man as
played me against the field and he was
sitting on the fence close by. When /
wakes up he says:
"'Poor mani Isees that cyclone when it
hits you, but couldn't save We. Pm con-
stable and down ON tramps, and the best
thing you can do is to make skipI'
81 skips sir, and takes the bumpers OF
freight train to bring me black eye and
battered nose and broken jaw back home,
and want you to put it in the sporting
columns of your paper that the under
signed, which is me, you know, has gone
a-wisiting of his friends and is not open to
any more country engagements against I'M
knowns until he has the gate money down
in his bloomin pocketP'-M. Quad in New
York Evening World.