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CHAPTER XVII--THE RING-SIDE - Rodney Stone
"I hope I see you well, Wilson," said he.
"Pretty tidy, I thank you," answered the other. "We'll speak to each other in a different vashion, I 'spects, afore we part."
"But no ill-feeling," said the smith, and the two fighting men grinned at each other as they took their own corners.
"May I ask, Mr. Referee, whether these two men have been weighed?" asked Sir Lothian Hume, standing up in the outer ring.
"Their weight has just been taken under my supervision, sir," answered Mr. Craven. "Your man brought the scale down at thirteen- three, and Harrison at thirteen-eight."
"He's a fifteen-stoner from the loins upwards," cried Dutch Sam, from his corner.
"We'll get some of it off him before we finish."
"You'll get more off him than ever you bargained for," answered Jim Belcher, and the crowd laughed at the rough chaff. 
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