3/12 As your father says to me when I'm sick, I must give you another dose." "No, no, don't, please," cried Vince: "you hurt." "Of course I do. How many times have you hurt me ?" "But it's cowardly to give it to a fellow smothered up like I am." "'Tisn't cowardly: it's the true art of war. Get your enemy up in a corner where he can't help himself, and then pound him like that, and that." "Oh!--oh!" "Yes, it is `Oh!' I never felt any one with such hard, bony ribs before; Jemmy Carnach is soft compared to you." "I say, you're killing me!" "Am I? Oh! I say, Mike, don't, there's a good fellow! Let me get up." "Are you licked ?" "Yes, quite." "Will you hit me if I let you get up ?" "No, you coward." _Bang, bang_. |