Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-02

Nlsu couAu tdhe Spdnsns ; Brown muttered between mouthfuls of planked whitefish. Be a mint O money in it for me right now" T could show you how to walk spanish, but there wouldn't be any big amount Of cash" Jones began.
 Don't you ever believe you could.' % Brown hurled back across the table.
 Do you know what l weigh? Even this hot spell hasn't pulled me down 10 where a spindle-shanks like you could turn that kid trick on me. Had my lesson when l was eleven years old and we moved to a new town The first night after we arrived l went out on the street and tried to get ac- quainted with the boys, and a great big lnhber. about IS, sidled up to me and says in the most off-hand tone,
 They live in that big Drick house, don't they? and l--never suspecting nothing,-says back, Who do?' Well, in about two shakes of a lambs tail that codger landed me one between the eyes that sent me spinning and all ] could hear Of the cussing he was giving me was something about hay- ing the impotence to call him a hoo doo,' and he'd teach an upstart kid not to get funny with his betteTs. and he wouldn't stand being called a hoo doc by nobody. l own up was scared stiff Couldn't think for the life O me what I'd say to make him mad. and
 went into the houss pickering like I'd been licked, and told my mother about it. and she took me of to one side and told me that if she caught me letting those boys bully me like that she'd lead me forth to the wood shed and relieve me of a square yard of hide. more or less"
 That's the kind of a Spartan moth CT I like to hear about, Briggs broke in enthusiastically. I've been telling my wife for years"
 That I onghC to make 2 lighter out of Tom. Mrs Briggs supplied I've tried 10 convince him that boys don't do that sort of thing any more and if Tom started something"
 He'd probably get what I gave that bunch O kids, Brown put in. not at all anxious to be cheated out Of the opportunity to shine before the lad ies of the Saturday Dinner club. It was his one really gratifying adveu- ture. and none Of them had heard about it. except Miss Simmons, and fortunately she was out of town.
 About a week after that big boy pasted me in the eye for saylng Who do? when he asked me a question. | went out one evening and he came up to me and said they had a little club and they'd like to have me join it. and the first part Of the initiation was learning to walk Spanish. I nev- CT heard about the trick. and the first thin& l thought vas that he'd taken me into his good eraces. and ] told him 10 go ahead with the first lesson ! noticed that the other kids all sufs- gered, and l made up my mind that I'd got to be game or my uother'd give me lickin' when it was over. and so when he got me by the meek band of my gineham waist with his left hand and a good grip on the seat of my pants with his right. and start ed me steDpin' down the middle O. the road on my tiptoes, why somerhiug hared up inside O me and-weH, 1 don't know to this day haw ] did 1t. but the other kids said that all Of a sudden I Topped through the air nkc g cat maxim a flying leap at a dog, and landed with one hand in the boy shock of red hair and the other in the pit of his stomach. You see. 1 must have turned so gudden that it took him of his guard. AnyEay. be- fore you could say Jack Robinson. te vas on his back in the dust and me on top O him poundin' the stnffln' out Of his head, I gave him the pretti- est pair O black eyes you ever saw, and when my knuckles got to hurtin' just sat on his chest and iumped ID and down till he bellered for mercy. And when he called to the other kids to pull mo of l took look around and every mothers son Of 'em had disappeared-scared to death They said little kid like me that could lick Pete Haskell must be a holy ter TOT. It cost Pete his place at the mead Of the gang, and I never heard of him trying 10 learn any other kid to walk spanish"
 And I'll warrant your mother thrashed you when you got homa," Mrs. Rriggs suggested.
 Not on your life. My mother wasnt { that kind"
 That unkind. I should say, drs. Johnson laughed.
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