Here ia a sample of juvenile reporfcorial energy in describing a prize-fight. It found expression in "verse" somewhere in South Carolina : " They mauled and mashed and mangled, An>l wrung and wrenched and wrangled; They bullied, busted, basted, bled, '1 heir eyes were blackened, noses red, Rut still they banged and bunged and bited, Thdso horrid-sighted pugs benighted, And kicked, and gouged, and gashed and gored, Till from the ring one pug was bored. Oh ! 1 v.-as glad when that last lunge Male fht-nosod Bill throw up the sponge."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 103, 31 October 1871, Page 2
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88Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 103, 31 October 1871, Page 2
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