Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-25
HE WOULDN'T HURT SISTER

l yes, remarked the slender young Gch-
ington man, refiectively,-'1 was kind q
sorry afterward, for a fact. that I made
that suggestion to sis. didn't mind the
er-mauling so much, yon see. but burned
If didn't hate to be shown I'D that way
by girl. honest Injun I I'd.
"On the evening that my sister got back
from the Pennsylvania girls school that
she's been attending fok the past three
years. to spend part Of Ter vacation here
at home with the blks. he ca4he into my
room to have snug old kalk with me. for
we've always been great pals. We chatted
along for awhile, and them sis looked up
and noticed the two pairssof boxing gloves
| that 1 had hung up between my pair OF
! foils on the wall.
why. what in the world are those
| funny-looking things?' sis asked me, with
| big. staring eyes.
"'Boxing gloves. of course said I. pa
| tronizingiy. You don't mean to say that
you never saw pair of boxing gloves be-
| why, aren't they queer looking! said
| she. without replying to my question, and
taking down pair, and looking them over.
| 1 shouldn't think you'd be able to hurt
baby with these things, they're so stuffed
| and cushiOny.'
| "'Wen, a fighter could knock a mule
dead with one of en- 1 said. in an offhand
| sort O. way. I'd taken two boxing lessons,
! you see, and knew the first moves in the
| i
| hand and chesty in my way of abiding to
| the boxing game. An idea struck me as
was explaining to her how to use the
gloves. .
| I'll show you how they're used
| said she, coyly?
" Hurt you nothing SIS said /, in a real
| chvalrous tone. Dye think I'd hurt my
| little sisters that l haven't seen in a year?
Not much! Come on. sis, and put pair
OF EN- on, and We'll have little sport with
! the things
she reluctantly consented, and l put a
! pair OF the gloves on her hands. and then
| donned pair myself. l called her my
| of habit. Sis isn't at all little, as you know.
She's strappng girl, and when felt of
| her blceps after 1t was all over l had an
exceedingly sage think or two coming.
" Now, you really mustn't hurt me. Jack,
| you know sis said to me after I'd put
the gloves on her, and we squared off.
Oh III only tap you as light as a
| feather, sis, said l., indulgently. Don't
| you be afraid. Now, you want to hold
| your hands this way'-and showed her the
| proper attitude. Now, dye know, that it
kind o vaguely occurred to me right then
| that she had mighty, good idea of the
| right way to put up her hands, but didn't
| have much of a chance to think it over,
! for the first thing l knew l got left-hand
| jolt on the point of the jaw that came near
| loosening my teeth, and l sure aston
| ished. l looked at sis, or tried to look at
! her, to see what her game was but before
L could do much gazing she gave me a
| straight rlght-h clip on the side of the
! head that pushed me quite distance along
! Queer street. 1t was then up to me, l saw
| pretty plainly, to jump in and defend my
| self, and l went at sis to see if / couldn't
| get in a little reciprocal poke at her 1t
| was no go. l tried for her jaw, just light
! iy, you know, but she wasn't there just at
the moment, and she came back at me with
| an uppercut that blame near lifted me off
my feet. This she followed up with left
hand one on the chest that turned me right
around, and when / was ready to square
| OH again she raped me one on the nose
that made me see several solar systems at
once. OF course by this time | was onto
the fact that l had made a jay of myself
in promising not to hurt Sis, but she didn't
give me much time to think about anything
for fact. l got i'll a light one OR her left
shoulder, but she cquntered with her right
and swung so hard on my forehead that
| thought for minute that I'd been kicked
/. by mule IL
Say. look a-here sis.,-I started to say
to her. but just at that minute she tented
with her right. L threw UP my guard FOR
she seemed to be leading for my head with
her right, when she executed that left
SHIFT that Fitzsimnrons has got down so
pat, and the next thing / knew l got one
on me solar pleXus that took all the ginger
" g way. you. yelled at SIS as / made
ior the door; stripping off my gloves. and
then. burned if she didn't clutch at her
sides and fall onto my couch and almost
go into spasms with laughter. 1t was ten
minutes before she could stop laughing
long enough to tell me tina, she'd been TAX
| ing thfee boxing lessons week at her
! girls school for the past year. and that
! she was considered the best boxer In her
class. believed that, all right; l was will
ing TO believe that she'd have some kind of
a look-in with Terry McGovern or one of
the big uns the way she juggied with me
ANA you're sure you won't hurt me
now, Jack? she says to me every time she
comes into my room nowadays
Yes" concluded the slender young Eek
| fngton man, I've been kind O. sorry ever
since that | suggested to sis that she put
| on the gloves with me- for she sure did
make all Kinds of a show of me and T
wouldn't have the fellows know about It
! for big money