Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1883 — The Barber on Prize-Fighting. [ARTICLE]

The Barber on Prize-Fighting.

New York Soil. “If I looked not like a chendleman bo , much,” the German barber said, “I rood peen a prize-fighter dermorrer. A man bj die gantry makes of himself a vool.to vork hart and sday poor ven he can a brizefighter peen, and got rich mitout doing somethings ad all. You dink fighting is oretty hart vork. Dot’s shust der point. , Mit my gwick dember, I has dwiceso much fighting done der lasd den years as any prize-fighter votis owid. I has dwo gusdimers licked and one landlord yet alretty. Dem prize-fighters ton t fight; dem all der vile talk apoud fighting. Dwioe a . year some leetle young Tellers vott go hired in some Pidy MoOlory blaoe by der 4 veek, btrnoh each other der sdufllng owd, but der brinoipal Tellers, like Mace and Sullivan und Ryan und Gopurn,dem tond come tergedder in fife year alretty. Dnd us dem did fight, like SuliiTan and Byan, not Tim gets a plack nose or ploody eye, ain’d it? Bni der two dergedder got chinmills and tiamonds and sealskin ooats and bookets tall of money. “Py Ohimrny Hooky, a Tirst-glass brize fighter Tot can dalV a crate deal can snob a gwiet life leat like a glergyman. Choost look at der bakers yesterday. Dem de names brinted of more as a huntred brize fighters—Tun-haf mit ohinmills. So many brize-flghters has not peen seen since dem Tellers peen porn. Oh, Tot a biddy I peen so Tine-looking I go to to sday pj der parber peeznees. “Der monkey parber by der negst shar got himselluf off once doo often some voolißknees. I am so mat at him 1 could bunch him in my eye. He dold me right ST&y in vront of a feefdeen-cent guedimer dat he tanks I dalk more und traw dwic» as much plood as any brize-fighter owii of chail^