That was all I wanted him to say; so I let fly and gave him a good
one on the jaw, and then I kept it up, until he cried worse than
I ever did when I went to school. He got out of that school room
faster than he came in, and then I called order and went on with
my duties just as if nothing had happened out of the regular order.
I remained in Portage City for some time. My pupils liked me and
paid their tuition promptly. Some of them paid much more than they
could well afford, but they did it voluntarily. I went from Portage
to Madison, where I had a good game, but I had to whip a fellow
the second day, and in fact I had one or more fights in every town
I went to; for there is nearly always some big bully in a town or
city that has whipped some one, and he thinks that every one is
afraid of him, and he can do just as he pleases; but they found
out that they could not run me on my keno business.