The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-07

a while ago%"
"Oh, nothing. tho English are all right,
.only--Ie"
"What was ii You said about them?"
oh, ! only said they swallow WE'LL"
"SwHllow better than other peopleY"
"Oh. yes, tho English swallow u good deal
better than other people"
What ID ID they swallow bestl"
"Oh, insults" Another general laugh.
pretty hard to make 'em fight, amt it?'
'No, faint hard to make 'em fight"
Amt it,. really?"
"No, tain't hard. It's impossible" An
other laugh.
This one's kind OF spiritlsss, that's cor
tain.''
Couldn't be the other way--in his CASE
: "Why?"
Don't you knew the secret of his birth?''
mo. Has he got II secret of his birth"'
You bet he haa."
What il it?" b. :
"Hia father WAS a wax fgeer."
Allen camo strollinR by whore the pair
were sitting, stopped and said to the tin
nor: -
How are you off for friends these days?''
well enough off,"
Got good many?"
"Well, Us many ns | mead"
"A friond 10 valuable sometimes-As a
protector. you know. What do you reckon
would happen it | WAS to snatch our cap
OH and slap you in the fnea with it?'
please dent trouble me. Mr.. Allen, I
amt doing anything to you,
you answer me! What do you reckon
would happen?o
We'll, | don't know"
Tracy spoke up with a good deal of de-
liberation and said:
Don't trouble tbs young fellow; ! can
tel. sSen what would happen" .-
& MtIln Mpoy1 0ax n v,xny y H~-o T,1-r--
Bull can tell us what would happen if | was
to snatch this chump's cap off and slap him
in tho face with II. Now you'll see."
Lie snatohed tho cap and struck tho youth
in the face, and before he could inquire
what waa going to happen, it had already
happened, and he was warming the tin
with tho broad Of his back. Instantly there
was q rush, and shouts OF IA ring. n ring;
mako q ring! Fair play all round! %Johnny's
grit; give him q chance"
The ring was quickly chalked on the tin,
and Tracy found himself as eager to begin
40 he could have been it his antagonist had
been q prince instead Of 1 mechanic. AT
bottom he was q little surprised at this, be
cause although his theories had been all in
that direction for some time, he was not
prepared to find himself actually eager to
measure strength with quite 40 common q
man as this rutfian.
In a moment all the windows in the
n~elRhborhood were flled with people, and
the roofs also. The men squared off and
the fight began. But Alien stood no chance
whatever against the young Epglishman.
in muscle nor in science was he his
equal. lie measured his length on the tin
time and again: in fact, az fast as he could
get up he went down again, and the ap-
plause was kept up in liberal" fashion from
all the neighborhood around. Finally Allen
had to be helped up. Then Tracy declined
to punish him further and the fight was at
an end.
Allen was carried of BY some Of his
friends in a very much humbled condition,
his face black and blue and bleeding, and
Tracy was at once surrounded by the young
fellows, who congratulated him and told
him that he bad done the whole house !
service, and that from this out Mi. Allen
would be a little moro particular about how
he handed slights and insults3Rnd maltrsat-
mant around amongst tho boardets. W.
Tracy waaA hero now and exceedingly
popular. Perhapa nobody had ever been
quite 80 popular on that upper floor before.
But, if being discountenanoed by these