. Stories of a country doctor . ars one of the boys say, go on,Jack, and a big boy steps out of the crowd and walkstoward him. Bill w^alks a little faster. The big boywalks faster than he does. He then quickens his paceand walks much faster. The pursuer quickens his pacealso and walks very much faster. Bill then strikes atrot. The big boy trots also; then Bill runs, and thebig boy runs, too. By this time they have reached theouter edge of the little town and are going down a longhill. It now becomes a race for—marbles. Bill is sadly handicapped in two ways ; he is smallerthan his pursuer and h
. Stories of a country doctor . ars one of the boys say, go on,Jack, and a big boy steps out of the crowd and walkstoward him. Bill w^alks a little faster. The big boywalks faster than he does. He then quickens his paceand walks much faster. The pursuer quickens his pacealso and walks very much faster. Bill then strikes atrot. The big boy trots also; then Bill runs, and thebig boy runs, too. By this time they have reached theouter edge of the little town and are going down a longhill. It now becomes a race for—marbles. Bill is sadly handicapped in two ways ; he is smallerthan his pursuer and he is carrying immense weight inthe great number of marbles he has in his pocket and 92 Peculiarities of Pioneer People. the weight is badly distributed—all the marbles being inone pocket. But Bill lays himself out for all those mar-bles are worth. As they get near the bottom of thehill he hears the quick drawn breath of the other boyand the flutter of his pants. He feels that nothing but acoup detat will save those bill broke the record in trotting the next mile. He slackens his gait, and, as the big boy passes atfull run, he catches one side of the tail of that long coat,and, carrying it over BilPs head, rips it up to the brings the big boy to an about face, and before hecan recover his equilibrium, Bill, still running, delivers apowerful blow with his fist in the pit of his pursuersstomach. Peculiarities ok Pioneer People. 93 This unexpected stroke doubles the big boy up likea jack knife. He grabs his stomach with both hands,walks round and round in a kind of swing and gets aw^-fully pale. After a while he begins to get his breath atintervals, with a loud whooping sound. Bill does notwait to see the outcome. He sees the crowd comingand he strikes out in a dog trot with those coat tailsstandmg out on either side like the wings of an he reaches the top of the hill he looks back andsees the big boy lying down and the crowd around him,some o
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