Mr.Howitt says, 'No man needn't be afraid of nobody but himself.' I've been a thinkin' lately, Buck, an' I see some things that I never see before.

I figure it that if I fight Wash Gibbs or anybody else just to see which is th' best man, I ain't no better'n he is.

I reckon I'll have to whip him some day, alright, an' I ain't a carin' much how soon it comes; but I ain't a goin' to hurt nobody for nothin' just because I can." Buck made no reply to this.

Such sentiment was a little too much for his primitive notions.

He went back to the men by the blacksmith shop.
It was not long, however, until the players left their game, to gather once more about the engine.