He attempted to pass but Lenning put out his foot, and had Jerry not stopped he would have been tripped up.
“Let me pass,” said he, sharply, but instead of complying, Lenning took a stand in front of him and hit the youth on the shoulder.
“I said I’d git square,” he hissed, savagely. “If yer ain’t afraid, stand up and fight.”
“I’m not afraid,” replied Jerry, and pushed him up against the wall.
Without delay a rough-and-tumble fight ensued.
“Give it to him, Dick!”
“Do the hayseed up!”
“Knock him into the middle of next week!”
These and a dozen other cries arose on the air, and the crowd kept increasing until fully a hundred spectators surrounded the pair.
Dick Lanning had caught Jerry unfairly, but the youth soon managed to shake him off, and, hauling back, gave him a clean blow on the end of his unusually long nose, which caused the blood to spurt from that organ in a stream.