And then I ran straight into the friend and the two college boys.
"Those college boys tried to collar me.

I was foolish enough to stop and tackle.

I had one of them on his back, and was doing nicely with the other, when the two men joined in.

I was down and being held hard, while Mr.Ritchie was threatening to have me sent to jail for life---for something I hadn't done, mind you! "As I ran by the Ritchie yard I saw the three Central Grammar School boys hiding behind the flower bed.

It made me mad, I suppose, to think that college boys, who aren't real men, anyway, should stoop so low as to try to catch a lot of grammar school prankers, so I fought back at my captors with some vim.