[The Valley of the Moon by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Valley of the Moon CHAPTER IV 24/41
The whole amphitheater was filled with the conflict.
There were rallies, retreats, charges, and counter-charges.
Weaker groups were forced fighting up the hillsides.
Other groups, bested, fled among the trees to carry on guerrilla warfare, emerging in sudden dashes to overwhelm isolated enemies.
Half a dozen special policemen, hired by the Weasel Park management, received an impartial trouncing from both sides. "Nobody's the friend of a policeman," Bert chortled, dabbing his handkerchief to his injured ear, which still bled. The bushes crackled behind him, and he sprang aside to let the locked forms of two men go by, rolling over and over down the hill, each striking when uppermost, and followed by a screaming woman who rained blows on the one who was patently not of her clan. The judges, in the second story of the stand, valiantly withstood a fierce assault until the frail structure toppled to the ground in splinters. "What's that woman doing ?" Saxon asked, calling attention to an elderly woman beneath them on the track, who had sat down and was pulling from her foot an elastic-sided shoe of generous dimensions. "Goin' swimming," Bert chuckled, as the stocking followed. They watched, fascinated.
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