The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-06
THE farmer AND MECHANIC

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an niver come out till S.iu:-
dab night He fought with naWsiiii
on his hands an whin he got nron2i
tn on'y way ye ~ tell ne nau q ~
at all was be obserVin' that it va OPP
.posite to tn back iv his. head. Ia ms
dec1inin' wears he kept a tavern ulat
tn look gave him. Ihey We're "a
great boys in Thin days. An De
hiyens, too Hinnissy, too. as LOGAN
saws. have. lived among joynts- InlnA
iy Thin grand Old heroes " Il tsIne,
| savers that fought Johnny Ieeran
with q broken arm all az
AFTERNOON, an Jim Mace. the Glpss,
an Tom Allen an John MerTlsSsy tii:t
was a turror in his day but didnt
keep in. good condition an become a
congressman. An thin. tn best II fhlm
all, JaWn T.. Sullivan. mat YIttl
warryor is with Us still. I'm gao 70
say. There was a fighter, tiinntsss. !
tiyrybody firm tn barber that shaVed
| him th' wrong way to TIA oregon
Joynt, that slew oxen with wan rufcn:
Ye niver heerd iv JaWn l..
whether he was III condition or no"
much money there was in 1T. he nl*cf
was in condition Or out iv it. His on y
recorded sayin' q Le1ne az nln:
Me heart niver beat so high with
pride as tn day tn Mayor ~ BoSton
presented him with tn dlmon neit nor
SuIlk So low III - oSCOIAA - 80
James j. Corbett presented him with
a belt in tn jaw.
"In Jawn L.. Su1livan's day q caal-
lenge to a fight with him was followed
be q crashing noise an thar vas an
there was to it. In thin times there
was no hard feelin' exciot q desire TO
slay each other between fighters.
Nowadays, be hivens. TIL chanapaens
are such inilnies that they S2lIon
meet. It takes as long to arrange a
F:~l+ &c. - SAnc 10 paf nm q ~ ynpn01
war. First there is a challenge, Fin
a"year's engagement skippin Tia rope
an maxim faces at q lOokin glass IN
a variety theaytre: thin tn challenge
is ACCEPTED an tn champeens so on
tn road fur another engagement; hin
a number iv u leadin' bankers are
called into finance tn encOunte". This
takes another q arrangements thin
have to be made fr tn cinnyfn1tty-
graft an fin'lly whin both old gintle-
men can no longer dhraW audiences
to tn theaythres they meet. paw each
other till wan iv thin gets q slap in
tn face an lies down on his oak fr
ten seconds an starts 4 saloon.
4 know q Dli~ze-fighter. / will in
thrajOOce ye sometime. We @ ind
him hard to talk to. In spite il his DO
sition he is very affable an has great
sympathy with tn VOrkin' classes.
Dye like ye'er profissyon"? says j.
Well, says he. polishin' his ainlon
ring, II Dettllef Illu "uI1L.hii L
Armour he SAYS. an tn r~emooncra-
ton is good. TIL principal throlble
| have to find with it is its too con
min. Thin variety ~theaytr5S are
badly ventilated an ! am often SO
faint afther dom me turn that I can
scarcely staeger to me a~utoimooill.
An We nave no idee what us c:lain-
poems have to suffer iVrN year .Iil:n
called upon 10 defind our titles. Tn
constant posin' fer pitchers, tn case
less intheryieWs, tn coorse ~WranGlin
with me opponent about whether I'll
knock him out in tn third or tn
eighth round, tn utter in1pOsSlbility
" getting new bills an finally tn
smOke-laGen atmosphere " tn. arena
an tn ring surrounded be fat men
| with pale faces who Wud die iN heart
disease if they thried to ov%ertalNe q
sthreet car an all tn time Seilin1 FIR
me to mnrdner q nice u fellow
that belongs to tn samewhist club as
I do--oh. it it hard, hard! But, says
/. don't yet get a bang in tn y
ivry Wanst in a while2' says I. L niyer
got as many Fl ten thousand dollars
says he, as cud get at tn took yards
amy Saturdah night free with me
pay check says he. An there He
are.
Aren't ye ashamed-to be rea0in'
about prize-fightin' whin there's 50
NANNY more important things to be
thinkin' about" said Mr.. I1ennessy.
IN tell We what I'll do SAID ar.
Dooley. IN bet We that at this nainyit
that Willum Hatch Taft can name
more champeen prize-fighterS thin he
can yice-prisidents " tn United States.
An I'll lave it to him
n00n mann lanIIFnrnr