Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-27
The Man
He Licked
By OSCAR cox

class In college. while his elder broth
err. Tom Anterior. led the football
team. Johnny was a demure little
chap. Everybody liked him. and no.
body ever thought of calling him any
thing but Johnny, while his brother
was spoken of as Tom Anterior. with
resonance deuotlng respect for his
bulldog strength.
Mildred Twinlng met Johnny away
from bis home and conceived great
liking for him. Johnny fell deeply In
love with her and proposed to her.
But there was one thing wanting In
him that Mildred wished In n hus.
band. and on this account his case
hung fire. She wanted man with
Johnny's intellect and delcctable gen.
tleness. but with latent strength
that might he aroused on occasion.
Johnny begged hard for a favorable
answer to his suit. but could not In
duce the girl to give It to him. How
ever. she had friend In the town
where he lived whom she had prom
Ised to visit and told Johnny that
when she arrived he might come to
sec her. This gave him a faint hope
that she might r0lent.
But when Mildred appeared and
Johnny renewed his pleadlngs he re.
ceived the same reply. and she told
him frankly that he was everything
she required save that courage and
hat In har
protector. Johnny went home and
poured his disappointment into his
brothers sympathetic ear. Tom. who
did not ut all value his vlgor and
would have gladly exchanged II for
his brothers intellectual and winning
qualifications, sympnthIzed with him
deeply. The two talked the matter
over. and Tom wished he could trans.
fer enough OF his blacksmlthian traits
TO Johnny to enable him TO win the
prize he coveted. However. he said
something to the latter that put an
idea into his head.
One morning Johnny and Mildred
were strolllng idly together through
the suburban town in which the for.
mer lived. Johnny pleading. Mildred
800 ,n,.n,o,,,,a honso ,,horo a
go nm, .,roi.tnn and iooL,,g on,
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a, ,no .o,,,,g counIo arose from b,s
as,;- al n,ne,roa ,ror,, ,ha sront door
in time TO meet them. Az he passed he
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Tho Mood r,shod into NIi,dred,s
oboo,,s pu, before .ho rouId show
any further resentment Johnny iump.
cd for the insulter and landed blow
on his chin rho man who received II
wos LARGE and strong. hut he covered
before J,bnnv.
"a man u,h, will ipau,, N lady" said
Iohnny with "A ring of courngc In his
yo,co tb,t had n.ver beep hoard there
before, "Is n coward and II um a
meosIy chm I can whIp even as big a
coward os vou"
with that Johnny went Mt the fel.
Ioyv like n furv. His enemy seemed
IN Iose all sonse of advantage of his
stool muscles and was so slow I'm his
movements that Johnny got in three
blows 10 his one. And whenever he
aimed ono thar would have finished
Jobunv tho latter sprnng nImbly aside.
Mildred looked ON this singular en-
counter astonisbed. As she gazed
Johnny p,onted n blow on her insult.
er,s law that sent him sprnwling.
Jobpny iumnod on him and held him
down r,arine Mt him like a demon.
"Hand mo that stone. please" John.
nv said 70 Mildred. .'and III mash his
b.ad m n ,eIlv"
.I.u do mn such thing" was the re.
nIv, "Do Won want 10 be hanged fol
murder9"
",Iurder, Ia n murder 10 kill n dog,
Pm po,p, IN pouee his ewes outr And
Johnny mt his thumbs 10 the sides Of
his enemv's ewes. The man seemed
70 have lost ali mower to save himself
and looked I'M Mt his little enemy II
terror Mildred, dreadipg TO see hi,
| eves pouged ON and 10 saye her love,
from such a borrId crime, took hin
nv the collar and dragged him on hI
enemy. Tho craven skunk away, John
nv calling after him: