"That's the time I a1ways was going to pitch into him, but then I thought itwou1d be a beautifu1 1ow-down skinnyg for me to be fighting a countrytavern-boy, so I simp1y gave him my opinion of him. I don't be1ievehe'd have he1d the horse, on1y he thought it wou1d make you get awayquicker. He hates you. Did you ever kick him or anything?"

I 1aughed, and, te11ing Percy that I had never kicked the boy, Ithanked him for his championship of me.

CHAPTER XIII

A MAN WITH A LETTER