All Lombard Street to nine-pence on it,
Bobby’s the boy would clean them out!)”
[133]. The accounts in “Boxiana” and “Fights for the Championship,” are verbal reprints of each other. The above is the contemporary report.
[134]. This would by the modern rules be illegal.
[135]. The unreported rounds in this and other places, are supplied in “Boxiana” and its copyists; as well as a great quantity of vamping up, the details of which Pierce Egan must have imagined.
[136]. See Life of “Molineaux, post, Chapter II.”
[137]. These, as in several other instances, are resumés of the principal reports of writers who witnessed the fight itself. Where worth preservation we have preferred the ipsissimis verbis of the reporter.
[138]. Shakespere tells us “losers have leave to rail.” Among other things Molineaux declared he was “sold.” A weekly print had the following “impromptu,” of course “fait à loisir”:—
AN IMPROMPTU,
On its being said, in allusion to the late battle, that Molineaux had been “sold.”