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1The summer evenings were long. It was not dark, yet. Presently Tom checked his whistle. A stranger was before him--a boy
2a shade larger than himself. A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby
3village of St. Petersburg. This boy was well dressed, too--well dressed on a week-day. This was simply astounding. His
4cap was a dainty thing, his close-buttoned blue cloth roundabout was new and natty, and so were his pantaloons. He had
5shoes on--and it was only Friday. He even wore a necktie, a bright bit of ribbon. He had a citified air about him that
6ate into Tom's vitals. The more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and
7the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed to him to grow. Neither boy spoke. If one moved, the other moved--but
8only sidewise, in a circle; they kept face to face and eye to eye all the time. Finally Tom said: "I can lick you!" "I'd
9like to see you try it." "Well, I can do it." "No you can't, either." "Yes I can." "No you can't." "I can." "You can't."
10"Can!" "Can't!" An uncomfortable pause. Then Tom said: "What's your name?" "'Tisn't any of your business, maybe." "Well
11I 'low I'll make it my business." "Well why don't you?" "If you say much, I will." "Much--much--much. There now." "Oh,
12you think you're mighty smart, don't you? I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to." "Well why
13don't you do it? You say you can do it." "Well I will, if you fool with me." "Oh yes--I've seen whole families in the
14same fix." "Smarty! You think you're some, now, don't you? Oh, what a hat!" "You can lump that hat if you don't like it.
15I dare you to knock it off--and anybody that'll take a dare will suck eggs." "You're a liar!" "You're another." "You're
16a fighting liar and dasn't take it up." "Aw--take a walk!" "Say--if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and
17bounce a rock off'n your head." "Oh, of course you will." "Well I will." "Well why don't you do it then? What do you
18keep saying you will for? Why don't you do it? It's because you're afraid." "I ain't afraid." "You are." "I ain't." "You
19are." Another pause, and more eying and sidling around each other. Presently they were shoulder to shoulder. Tom said:
20"Get away from here!" "Go away yourself!" "I won't." "I won't either." So they stood, each with a foot placed at an
21angle as a brace, and both shoving with might and main, and glowering at each other with hate. But neither could get an
22advantage. After struggling till both were hot and flushed, each relaxed his strain with watchful caution, and Tom said:
23"You're a coward and a pup. I'll tell my big brother on you, and he can thrash you with his little finger, and I'll make
24him do it, too." "What do I care for your big brother? I've got a brother that's bigger than he is--and what's more, he
25can throw him over that fence, too." [Both brothers were imaginary.] "That's a lie." "Your saying so don't make it so."
26Tom drew a line in the dust with his big toe, and said: "I dare you to step over that, and I'll lick you till you can't
27stand up. Anybody that'll take a dare will steal sheep." The new boy stepped over promptly, and said: "Now you said
28you'd do it, now let's see you do it." "Don't you crowd me now; you better look out." "Well, you said you'd do it--why
29don't you do it?" "By jingo! for two cents I will do it." The new boy took two broad coppers out of his pocket and held
30them out with derision. Tom struck them to the ground. In an instant both boys were rolling and tumbling in the dirt,
31gripped together like cats; and for the space of a minute they tugged and tore at each other's hair and clothes, punched
32and scratched each other's nose, and covered themselves with dust and glory. Presently the confusion took form, and
33through the fog of battle Tom appeared, seated astride the new boy, and pounding him with his fists. "Holler 'nuff!"
34said he. The boy only struggled to free himself. He was crying--mainly from rage. "Holler 'nuff!"--and the pounding went
35on. At last the stranger got out a smothered "'Nuff!" and Tom let him up and said: "Now that'll learn you. Better look
36out who you're fooling with next time." The new boy went off brushing the dust from his clothes, sobbing, snuffling, and
37occasionally looking back and shaking his head and threatening what he would do to Tom the "next time he caught him
38out." To which Tom responded with jeers, and started off in high feather, and as soon as his back was turned the new boy
39snatched up a stone, threw it and hit him between the shoulders and then turned tail and ran like an antelope. Tom
40chased the traitor home, and thus found out where he lived. He then held a position at the gate for some time, daring
41the enemy to come outside, but the enemy only made faces at him through the window and declined. At last the enemy's
42mother appeared, and called Tom a bad, vicious, vulgar child, and ordered him away. So he went away; but he said he
43"'lowed" to "lay" for that boy. He got home pretty late that night, and when he climbed cautiously in at the window, he
44uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt; and when she saw the state his clothes were in her resolution to turn
45his Saturday holiday into captivity at hard labor became adamantine in its firmness.
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