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"Troth and I won't. I'm stronger than you are any day."
"Perhaps you are; but I understand fighting, and you don't."
"An O'Reilly not know how to fight!" exclaimed the Irishman hotly.
"I could fight when I was six years old."
"Perhaps so; but you can't box."
One or two more attacks, and O'Reilly was dragged away by two of his
friends, and Dewey remained master of the field.
The miners came up and shook hands with him cordially. They regarded
him with new respect, now that it was found he had overpowered the
powerful O'Reilly.
Among those who congratulated him was his Mongolian friend, Ki Sing.
"Melican man good fightee-knock over Ilishman. Hullah!"
"Come with me, Ki Sing," said Dewey. '"I will take care of you till
to-morrow, and then you had better go."
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHINESE CHEAP LABOR.
Though Dewey had received from the miners a promise that they would
not interfere with Ki Sing in case he gained a victory over
O'Reilly, he was not willing to trust entirely to it. He feared that
some one would take it into his head to play a trick on the
unoffending Chinaman, and that the others unthinkingly would join
in.
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