He could not walk very fast.

He was stiff and lame from the incessant fighting.

His forearms were black and blue from wrist to elbow, what of the countless blows he had warded off, and here and there the tortured flesh was beginning to fester.

His head and arms and shoulders ached, the small of his back ached,--he ached all over, and his brain was heavy and dazed.

He did not play at school.