"Where's your science gone?
Why don't you play the game as you know it ?" "Mack, Mack," panted Larry.

"It ain't a game.

I'm--I'm fighting, and, Mack, I'm not afraid of him." Mack whistled.

"Who said you are afraid of him, youngster ?" "He did, Mack, he called me a coward--you remember, Ben, up in the cedar bush that day we played hookey--you remember, Ben ?" Ben nodded.

"He called me a coward and"-- grinding the words between his teeth--"he called my mother a coward.