When, having failed to provoke a fight, he had taken himself off, an onlooker said: "Bill, I thought you were going to do him up ?" "But," says Bill, "did you see him ?" "Yes, I saw him.

What of that ?" "Why," exclaimed the bully, "that man was a walking arsenal." Aaron Pennington, the strong man just mentioned, was, in his younger days, a river pilot.

Billy Hite, a mite of a man, was clerk.

They had a disagreement, when Aaron told Billy that if he caught him on "the harrican deck," he would pitch him overboard.

The next day Billy appeared whilst Aaron, off duty, was strolling up and down outside the pilot-house, and strolled offensively in his wake.