The truth is, he wasn't fit,--he ought to have been, but he wasn't,--and because he wasn't fit he came mighty near quitting--for a moment, I'm sure, he felt like it, because his nerve was gone,--but he didn't.
Remember, he felt like quitting and didn't, And that's the finest thing a chap can do,--never to quit, even when he feels like it.

Do you see ?" The lad's head went up.

"I see," he said, his eyes glowing.

"It was fine! I'm awfully glad he didn't quit, 'specially when he felt like it.
You tell him for me." His idol was firm again on his pedestal.
"All right, old chap," said his big brother.

"You'll never quit, I bet!" "Not if I'm fit, will I ?" "Right you are! Keep fit--that's the word!" And with that the big brother passed out to find the man who was writhing in an agony of self-contempt; for in the face of all Scotland and in the hour of her need he had failed because he wasn't fit.
After an hour Dunn found his man, fixed in the resolve to there and then abandon the game with all the appurtenances thereof, and among these the dinner.