. Wisconsin medical recorder . o take care of himwhile he was helpless, so it was hard torealize that he had played a trick ofthis kind upon me. That he was guiltyI had no doubt as he grimaced some-thing like a cat that has beeu caught ina cream pitcher, as he retreated behinda gigantic man who had quietly arisenfrom his chair and was regarding mewith loutish amusement. This made mehesitate before going after the interpre-ter and a quick look around the roomshowed me four other pace makers pres-ent from the great G. & T. Company,and I began to get a faint idea as towhom I was fighting in the c
. Wisconsin medical recorder . o take care of himwhile he was helpless, so it was hard torealize that he had played a trick ofthis kind upon me. That he was guiltyI had no doubt as he grimaced some-thing like a cat that has beeu caught ina cream pitcher, as he retreated behinda gigantic man who had quietly arisenfrom his chair and was regarding mewith loutish amusement. This made mehesitate before going after the interpre-ter and a quick look around the roomshowed me four other pace makers pres-ent from the great G. & T. Company,and I began to get a faint idea as towhom I was fighting in the I realized that I was confrontedby these brutes who had their being, set-ting a pace for their weaker brothers tofollow. Many times in the past I hadgritted my teeth and wished for an op-portunity of meeting these men as I hadwatched by the bedside of some pitiablespecimen of humanity who had droppedby the wayside while trying to keep uphis end and feed his hungry family,and here a kind providence had seen fit. not only to throw them in myway, but actually as anactive antagonist. While I had not figured onany opposition, still I was toogood a politician not to pro-vide for possible emergencieslikely to happen at any politi-cal gathering, and beforemixing in the fight myself, Iblew a police whistle loudly,knowing full well that within the soundof my blast were two human fightingmachines with real Irish blood in theirveins, who stood ready at my commandto put anyone in the crowd in the hospi-tal or morgue as might be deemedbest. It would not do, however, for mein a community where might maderight, to refuse a challenge coming soopenly to me before my friends. If Ihad turned yellow, every man in thecrowd would have regarded me as ajoke, and I never would have heard thelast of the matter, so after calling mytrained aids I sailed into the biggest ofthe pacemakers, and my onslaught wasso sudden and unexpected that Iknocked him down. He scrambled tohis feet and began a se
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