The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-03

cessitate my giving that lesson all oVe
 again, Still, I'd like to give you dog
 Now, that was Mooser, and the mal
 knocked out first was one Of his pu
 pills. Mooser had put him up agains
 the two men to break him in, and Wher
 he didn't fight with the vim Moose
 thought he ought to. why, Moose
 ploughed in and gave him few digs
 himself. Then the other two mer
 turned in Mooser, and I got the ides
 that it was a three-to-one affair.
 learned later on that Mooser always
 paid his obligations with a dog. That
 was his peculiarity. He invariably
 stole the dog, and as he had every good dog in San Francisco spotted. he would
 provide you with any particular breed { that you wanted.
 'Mooser interested me very much and
 l enjoyed several peaceful evenings
 With him Once or twice he invited me
 out to see him give a lesson, but some
 thing always prevented my going But
 finally, one night I met Mooser wan
 dering along the busiest street in San l Francisco He seemed glad to see me
 and remarked that he had always liked me since the night of that fight. He l sighed after awhile and said he thought l had the makings of great fighter in
 me if some one would only bring it out I thanked him and in an unguarded moment said he ought to be able to do it if any one could
 Will you let me-? he said eagerly,
 and I said I would. I was expecting to
 get an invitation to box with him some
 night, but just then he sidled up along
 side of a shop window where two or three men were standing. I followed and moment later strange thing happened. Mooser reached over my shoulder and hit big laboring man across the face. The laborer turned around like a flash and saw-me.
 There was action in second. Be- fore IVcould get my hand up the labor CT had swatted me in the face. I looked around for Mooser and saw him across the steet, calmly smoking q cigar and watching the fun. I didn't have time to inspect him any further. The labor CT came for me like fiend, and I had to fight back. We exchanged punches until we were exhausted and then I be- came aware that Mooser was behind me.
 Kick him in the stomach he said gently. Not too hard, but right at the pit
 "I won't do it. ] said. and I wouldn't. but there was no need. Mooser did it for me, and then, just as three policemen came around one cor ner, Mooser dragged me around anoth- CT, and that incident was closed. l was indignant of course, and I demanded of Mooser what he meant by such conduct. He seemed surprised, but when he saw that I meant what I said, he explained that that was his way of teaching men to fight.
 |" When l get through with you, you ,an lick any four men in the country in ! rough and tumble fight he said. | Just now you are entirely too sensitive, | md let me remind you that I mean to | De obeyed When l. tell you to kick | nan in the stomach I want you to do it. ! Don't wait to ask questions, but just 1 ,bey I'll teach you how to kick man n the stomack and, if he happens to be town, in the head without permanently | njuring him, but I can't do anything or you if you don't abey. l stopped hat fight before 1 wanted to, because l | aw that some one had gone for the po- ice, and didn't want you to be arrest d. It's inconvenient, A kick in the tomach is the quickest way to stop the ight and still win, that's why I sug- .ested it.
 We were walking down a quiet treet as Mooser talked. and pretty oon we came to a corner where a half ozen men were grouped, saying good fight to one another. Without word f warning Mooser gave me a shove lto the center of this party. hooked three men almost over and the hole six jumped on me at once. ont know where Mooser went, but he 'asn't in sight when the field cleared. was alone, fighting six men.
 T knew Mooser had his eye on me, lough, and although I regarded it as a tile rough to give me a job like this, , was beginning to understand Mooser. , 0 I went in and fought the best l new how I handed out punches right nd left and they counted because I , as a pretty strong fellow, and, then, I ld confidence I knew Mooser was lmewhere near by and that at the pro- 1; ar time he would bob up and help me r 1t, and my faith in Mooser's ability to K an army was absolute. r Pretty soon two of the three men re- red from the fight and two others wee 1 IT arcely fighting al all. But the other IT 70 gave me fierce battle and my r 'es were all puffed out when Mooser V me on the scene with his usual weird f ddenness and sent one of my oppo- q nts into dreamland. e '' Kick him in the stomach, whis- 0 red Mooser softly to me. I didn't do c
 Kick him in the stomach, repeated h poser, trifie more firmly. Again I il uld not bring myself to do it. It D emed such dirty thing to do when n d only one man against me. Sud E nly l was attacked from the rear by e Q of the men who had quit, and as I q rned to beat him off the man in front
 and kicked me in the stomach, and t, ats all I remembered until I came to u d heard Mooser telling a policeman < w he had seen me attacked by a ', " nd of highWaymen and had come up , st as they were about to go through ,. The policeman took it all down se d the next day it was in all the pa r., IS, and detectives weraN assigned to ",