"Yes, sah," the Colonel thundered again, "all that have got good fightin' blood in 'em, like you and me.

" "Been fightin'?" "No; ran a race to Hunter.

We're fightin' fire yet.

The first day of May turned out to be a most beautiful day, bright and sunny; and when Lizzie hung her pretty basket filled with Plymouth Mayflowers on the door-knob of a great friend of hers, she laughed, and wondered if Becky had hung hers for that "fightin' gen'leman, Tim."

That house will never be taken without a desperate sight of fightin'; for the captain is an old warrior, and seems to like to snuff

"You're fightin' a winnin' fighta winnin' fight," Ted Barton whispered in his ear.

An' I know from the way his eyes go yellow that he has the fightin' instinct of the ancestors of man.

" "If it's fightin' you want," cried a joker, "maybe Lewis an' Patterson will give us all enough of it at the jail.

Ye may call it fightin', but it's just murder I call it meself.

And last of all they got Piotto, fightin' like an old wildcat, into a corner with his daughter; and William Drew, he took Piotto into his arms and busted his back.

I wouldn' min' fightin', fer my time ain't come yit,I feels dat in my bones.

"Who is Price a fightin'? He is a fightin', I do know.

"And," says I, "All my life I've been fightin' Through oceans of nothin' but fog; And never no harbor a-sightin' Jest driftin' around like a log; No matter how sharp I'm a-spyin', I never see nothin' ahead: I'm sick and disgusted with tryin' I jest wish ter

I didn't know nothin' only they was fightin'.

He said, 'You're a G-Dliar, I'm fightin' for $14 a month and the Union.'

They said they was fightin' to free the niggers.

I heard em say the North was fightin' the South.

Walt Coburn (A); 4Sep57; R198418. Fightin' wages.

Fightin' fool, by Max Brand, pseud.

I never seen much o' de real fightin'.

"I didn' see no fightin' in de war.

And all the while he was fightin' hard.

It was a sweaty, red-faced crew that the marshal dumped into Pennington's grocery with, "Here, Bill, I found your boy and these young demons fightin' down 't the circus ground, and I took 'em in charge.

I hain't a-fightin' fer no honor.

" VILLAGE GROCER"What are you running for, sonny?" BOY"I'm tryin' to keep two fellers from fightin'.