Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30
HIS LITTLE SCRAP.
He Anticipated Soft Snap but Daniel
Knew His Trade.

Knew His Trade.
Up at Nett Haven the other day met q
young man who had just come off a train.
He had black eye, his nose had received
an awful jam, and after a patient investi-
cation of his right lower jaw, at his re-
quest, 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 jawed sort of q smile and
said:
There wasn't any collision as heard
of-at least not on the railroad"
''Then you've had a row."
st was this way: Yesterday morning
was around here looking for job when a
man comes up to me and looks me all over,
and then asks if l was a fighter. l says
that | was nothing to Drag of, though
and fought the Buffalo Rusher to stand
still in seven.
What sort of match does you want
to make?' says l.
"'Wall,' says he, Pm alvin up here
bit on farm. and I've got a boy named
Dan'l He's cheerful young man, Dan'I
is, but he's got swellin of the head about
prize fights. He thinks he's the comm
OUkllNdU, anu Uuc CldLS IL Euuulu away
with him.
"'But what has to do with your bloom
in son Dan1Y
so wants you to go home with me. Pll
pass you off for an orphan picked up.
Then wants you to put on the mittens
with Dan1 and knock him all over the
township and reduce the swellin Of his
head
For how much sugar.
"'Wall, if it's success 1 won't mind
ten dollars and your railroad fare and
big boiled dinner
well, sir, it struck me right, and we
hoped onto a 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 theres"
'He was, sir He proves to be six feet
high and to weigh about ton. suppose
looked bit lonesome, for 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 Danr 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 l proceeds accordingly"
did DanI seem at all agitated?" l
asked.
Never Bit sir He was as cool as the
north side of an iceberg in January"
"Well?"
well. the old gent calls time on us and
we stepped out / leads with my left after
claret, but doesn't get any. | swings my
right for his jaw, but it wasn't there. Had
better see the doctor, sir?"
Yes. later on. What followedS"
why, sir, the bloomin innocent hearted
Dan, Who doesn't know swing from an
upper cut, wades into me. He drives me
ali over the barn and back; he knocks me
to the right and the left; 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, ehp'
ayes, sir; and so completely that when
wakes up l was lying half a mile away
beside the highway l looks for Daniel,
the tender blossom, and he was down in
the hay field. l looks for the old man as
played me against the field and he was
sitting on the fence close by. When l
wakes up he says:
Poor man! Isees that cyclone when it
hits you, but / couldn't save ye. Pm con-
stable and down on tramps, and the best
thing you can do is to make skipl'
81 skips, sir, and takes the bumpers of a
freight train to bring me black eye and
battered nose and broken jaw back home,
and l 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 pocketr'-M. Quad in New
York Evening World.