do it-you may have the spurt spe

e talking about, Jimmy; I can beat

into view and patted them affectio

Nibs," was the indifferent repl

breath at the pistol. A good one will carry him over the string." The speaker leaned across t

He flecked the ash from his cigarette, scrupulous that it should not dust his clothes, and said slowly, an

hat, and settled back, ap

were jokin

r, a gasolene lamp was burning at the top of a weather-stained post. In front of the Opera House an Uncle Tom's Cabin band was straining at the mel

my Hulburt sat in

ue to the counter effect of Hulburt's derision of Morey's abundant conceit, for had Nibs Morey been asked to cite an instance of Jimmy's championing him, he, positiv

a challenge to Billy Shaw on the Bulletin Board in th

aking a Jack of y

to?" Nibs rep

at you by a rod,"

you bel

l, I

nee

ght; we

the joy of victory a space, and then to meet, and join in combat, with a foeman vastly worthier of his steel. For, in spite of J

conspicuous, by its poster style, among the score or more announcements of clas

dor folded beneath his coat. Satisfied that they were not observed, he drew it out and spread it upon th

n, eh?" he sa

oadside replied, tilting his head and viewing his work

nking you're a fool,

passing lightly over Jimmy's expression of what appe

life out of you," was the discouraging rejoinder. "Hurry, hang it up," he added, "I don't

ith tacked upon the Board to the complete concealment of one bill announcing the publication of the Palladium, and another displayed to notify the s

claimed the joyous Nibs, stepping back from

end, after all; for Billy Shaw, the prospective opponent, had brought with him to Ann Arbor a country record

hat prompted the posting of the challenge now-a zeal to prove-perhaps to Jimmy, more than to the others-his wisdom, and the jus

uld have to run now, or ever after hold his peace,-they said-an alternative not to the relish of a youth of his temperament. And he did accept the challenge, and he did run; and be