Thereupon Hitch Diamond sprang to his feet and howled:
“I fights any nigger in the worl’ fer two bits, fer a chaw terbaccer, fer a watermillyum rind, fer de tail of a tadpole!”
He jumped three feet in the air, cracked his heels together like two clapboards, and shrieked:
“I’s de Tickfall Tiger, an’ I kin curry dat Georgia jackass fo’ inches under his hide!”
Then the seconds clattered out of the ring with their folding stools, and the two men advanced and took their fighting attitudes.
Pap Curtain picked up a baseball bat and struck a large wagon-tire suspended from a tree on the edge of the bayou. This was the gong.
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“I’se de braying jack-ass of Georgia, an’ no nigger in Tickfall cain’t comb my mane.”
“Time!” the referee shouted.