“Accident!” declared Billings savagely. “I had him going.”
The tramp laughed.
“The secret of success,” he observed, “is to keep a good thing up after you’ve started. You can’t keep it up, me friend.”
Being released, Billings scrambled to his feet, his face flushed and his eyes glaring.
“You’ll never fool me another time that way!” he declared. “You can’t throw me again in a hundred years!”
“Various opinions about that, me friend,” chuckled the tramp. “But I guess this business is settled. One fall was to end it.”
“One fall don’t end it!” snarled Billings. “You will have to try it again.”
“Now, hold on!” cried the stranger, holding up his hand. “I say it ain’t fair—it ain’t fair!”
“Make him take his medicine, Skip!” exclaimed several.
In spite of his protest, the tramp was compelled to meet Billings again.