He meant to knock me down with it; but, just as he leaned over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by the collar, and, with a vigorous and sudden snatch, I brought my assailant harmlessly, his full length, on the _not_ overclean ground--for we were now in the cow yard.

He had selected the place for the fight, and it was but right that he should have all the advantges( sic) of his own selection.
By this time, Bill, the hiredman, came home.

He had been to Mr.
Hemsley's, to spend the Sunday with his nominal wife, and was coming home on Monday morning, to go to work.

Covey and I had been skirmishing from before daybreak, till now, that the sun was almost shooting his beams over the eastern woods, and we were still at it.

I could not see where the matter was to terminate.