He will not soon forget the lesson which I have just given him--the only lesson he could understand.

What would have been the use of reasoning with a fellow of that description?
Brave old Broughton! I owe him much." "And your manner of fighting," said I, "was the manner employed by Sergeant Broughton ?" "Yes," said my new acquaintance; "it was the manner in which he beat every one who attempted to contend with him, till, in an evil hour he entered the ring with Slack, without any training or preparation, and by a chance blow lost the battle to a man who had been beaten with ease by those who, in the hands of Broughton, appeared like so many children.

It was the way of fighting of him who first taught Englishmen to box scientifically, who was the head and father of the fighters of what is now called the old school, the last of which were Johnson and Big Ben." "A wonderful man that Big Ben," said I.
"He was so," said the elderly individual; "but had it not been for Broughton, I question whether Ben would have ever been the fighter he was.

Oh! there is no one like old Broughton; but for him I should at the present moment be sneaking along the road, pursued by the hissings and hootings of the dirty flatterers of that blackguard coachman." "What did you mean," said I, "by those words of yours, that the coachmen would speedily disappear from the roads ?" "I meant," said he, "that a new method of travelling is about to be established, which will supersede the old.

I am a poor engraver, as my father was before me; but engraving is an intellectual trade, and by following it, I have been brought in contact with some of the cleverest men in England.