Anyway, he'd never paw a girl as Bert and lots of the other fellows did.

She measured the breadth of Billy's heavy shoulders.
"Why do they call you 'Big' Bill ?" she asked.

"You're not so very tall." "Nope," he agreed.

"I'm only five feet eight an' three-quarters.

I guess it must be my weight." "He fights at a hundred an' eighty," Bert interjected.
"Oh, out it," Billy said quickly, a cloud-rift of displeasure showing in his eyes.