Only a few scratches were received until
a blow took effect on the head of the
patrician. This apparently angered him,
and he showed his anger by enlarging the
plebian’s mouth. (It you don’t perceive
what 1 mean I can’t help it. lam not
going into details.) They kept it up a
while longer until both were too cut up
and mangled to perceive what they were
about, and so they had to stop. At this I
came away.
Now it sounds very well to read a de
scription of all this, but to see a fellow’s
face laid open and blood running down
his white shirt on to the ground to such
an extent that the servants had to strew
the ground wkb sawdust to prevent the
men from slipping—well, you can see
pretty much the same thing in the stock
yards at home. Only in that place there
is only one brute. Here there are two, and
both parties concerned have something to
say about it.
