The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
TWO BOYS FIGHTING.
The Course OF the BnttIe-Tho Men That In
terrered-End OF the Fight.

The Course OF the Bnttle-Tho Men hat In
torfered-End OF the Fight.
In q downtown street there were two boys
fighting; little bits of fellows, they were, not
more that 8 or 8 years old. but very stocky and
sturdy. and very evenly matched. They did not
stand of and spar very much. but closed In and
wrestled and fought, n good deal of the time
each with an arm around the othor's neck.
A tall. slender, well-dressed mar walking
along the sidewalk stepped out into the street to
separate the fighting boys. He had some diff.
other so tightly, but no finally did separate
them. and he took one Of the boys along with
him struggling all the time; to the Sidewalk
from where the boys had been fighting, and then
he let him 60. The boy at once went back to his
The two boys stood for a moment about six
feet apart: which was quite q little distance for
other. When they met the boy that had been
taken away got q blow In the eye that abraded
the skin around It; They clinched and wrestied
time there were half a dozen people looking on.
One man who stood on the curbstone said. smil-
ingly, to another man standing close by;
They are too small to hurt each other. and
they'll get tired out pretty soon and stop"
ter of fact, instead of getting tired out and
stopping, they seemed all the time to be getting
hsrcer and stronger, and to be putting in their
Break away Break away r. said q third
man. He was good.humored and he smiled as
it; but it could not be told whether his %injunc-
fighting or simply to stop them long enough to
give them a breathing spell before beginning
The boys didn't break away; they kept on
fighting and getting hotter, and hotter all the
time. whanEing away a. each other as hard as
and walked out into the street and pulled them
apart. and held them apart for a moment; and
then went on. Instantly the boys went to light
on the sidewalk.
was carrying on his back a number of chairs
stacked together; they rose a foot or more above
they couldn't see thought at first he was trying
to push tho boys out OF his way; but a moment
later they saw that he had halted to separate
them. 1ncumbered as he was he stopped to
pull the boys apart. but he had no sooner passed
on than they went to fighting again more keenly
than ever. But the end of the fight was now
A walter. a smooth.faced young man in a
white jacket, stepped out of n closely restau-
rant and collared the first of the two fighting
boys that he came to and pulled him away and
arms. firmly but kindly, and moved him along
the sidewalk to the next corner, the boz
s parentlg Se "la 'h the 5'% %si te Fs' Speculation aTeSi Il hf tha ap a
separation OF that distance would cool the boy,
and that perhaps he would scoot, but all that
the boy did actually was to try even from the
corner to get to the other boy. Just what tho
waiter would have done next was not shown,
for at this moment there appeared another man
whose mere appearance settled the whole bust
ness. This other man was n policeman.
He was a well-built. good-siZed man, with a
CLINT of humor In his face, and he looked at the
same time sensible and level headed He came
from the other side of tho street. running fast,
though possibly not quito SO fast as he could
have run.
1.-THE cop! the cop!"
The struggling small boy looked up and saw
tho policeman coming with a face that to him
seemed very stern. and in an instant he had
wriggled himself free from hands quite willing
to release him and was fleeing along the street.