The wager was taken with great promptness, and then the patient was loaded into a cab and sent off with the black prize-fighter.

The prize-fighter stopped at a drug store and bought a mixture of cocoanut oil and alcohol.

One leg had become stiffened, and the prize-fighter suddenly jumped upon it and broke it down, and Markham rolled off the marble slab, almost fainting from the pain.

The fourth day the prize-fighter got drunk and was arrested, and was sent to jail for thirty days.

The learned Judge looked at him for a considerable time, as though he had never seen a prize-fighter before, and was determined to make the most of him.

He would be against prize-fighting to a certainty, but how far he might be inclined to convict a prize-fighter was another matter.

She hain't come in; mebbe she's hangin' that May-basket for the prize-fighter," giggled Lotty.

And so they kept on playin' a sort of a game of tag over the place, the stranger jest side-steppin' like a prize-fighter, the prettiest you ever seen, and not developin' when Sandy started on one of his swings.

New Year's eve, two picture shows, hulas, and the festivities of the wedding of Cowan, the prize-fighter, brought in a throng from the districts to add to the Papeete population and the voyagers.

Had his hair been cropped close, he would have looked very much like a prize-fighter; but he wore it long, parted in the middle, and as meek in expression as its stiff waves would allow.

Now the "rough," when brought to a physical climax, becomes the prize-fighter; and the college student is seen in his highest condition as the prize-oarsman; and both these representative men, under such circumstances of ambition, straightway abandon tobacco.

We likewise question Mr. White's explanation of the word priser, which, he says, "is prize-fighter, one who wins prizes."

And the whole Tribe of Brull dependents was preparing for the contest with the enthusiasm of a prize-fighter sure of victory beforehand.

In his encounters with the sun he is like a prize-fighter coming up to time.

These good-natured men, fighting the bitterest kind of warfare without the signs of brutality which we associate with the prize-fighter and the bully in their faces, know why they are fighting.

Nor was his skill in arms less than in learning, or his courage inferior to his skill: there was a prize-fighter at Mantua, who travelling about the world, according to the barbarous custom of that age, as a general challenger, had defeated the most celebrated masters in many parts of Europe; and in Mantua, where he then resided, had killed three that appeared against him.

The prize-fighter advanced with great violence and fierceness, and Crichton contented himself calmly to ward his passes, and suffered him to exhaust his vigour by his own fury.

but I'd rather be a wreck like me than a prize-fighter like you.'

"I met a chap I used to know at Bull's Wharf, and he told me that she used to keep company with a chap named Bill Lumm, a bit of a prize-fighter, and since she gave 'im up she won't look at anybody else.

"I don't know," ses Peter; "but this chap told me that she won't walk out with anybody agin, unless it's another prize-fighter.

"I used to walk out with a prize-fighter once before, and since I gave 'im up I began to think I was never going to 'ave a young man agin.

"You'll see 'im fast enough, and, wotever you do, don't let 'im know you're a prize-fighter.

"If you think I'm going to be smashed up by a prize-fighter just to show my pluck you're mistook." "You must go, Ginger," ses old Sam, very severe.

You see, we know you're not a prize-fighter and the others don't.

(EXTRACT FROM "THE DAILY PRIZE-FIGHTER," SEPTEMBER 24, 1900.)