You take notice first time you see her.

I'll bet you'll say--" "Aw, can that chatter, you poor fish!" Jack exploded unexpectedly, and smote Hank on his lantern jaw with the flat of his palm.

"You hick from hick-town! You brainless ape! You ain't a man--you're a missing link! Give you a four-foot tail, by harry, and you'd go down the mountain swinging from branch to branch like the monkey that you are! What are _you_, you poor piece of cheese, to talk about a woman ?" His hand to his jaw, Hank got up from where he had sprawled on his back.

He was not a fighting man, preferring to satisfy his grudges by slurring people behind their backs.

But Jack smacked him again and thought of a few other things to which he might liken Hank, and after that Hank fought like a trapped bobcat, with snarls and kicks and gouging claws.