THE GREAT FIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 287, 13 October 1864, Page 6

THE GREAT FIGHT.

Desrri'ietl in a Mt<>• from Master Johnny Bvssf.i.i., of Saint Stephen's _-leademi/, to Masteu Thomas Bitowx. Deaii Toir, I hope you are quite mill. lam quite ■well. I hope your sister is quite well. Give my love to her. There has been .'i jolly tight between Ben Dizzy aiul Bill Gladstone, and Ben has got well licked, awl I am jolly glad of it, for Ben has been an awful nuisance all tliis half, and saying nasty things of one, and getting beastly cocky. You know Ben is in the oilier House and so he couldn't get at me, for you know I am in the Upper House, among the other Big Boys. But he kept saying spiteful things of me all behind my back, where he knew I could nor. answer him, and at last he got so cheeky that h-: pitched into Old Pain, and said he'd fight him rad Bill Gladstone, to fee who should be cock. You know Old l'am has been cock of the school for ever such a while, and our fellows all like liim, because he is so good-natured, and is such a clever chap at getting fellows out of messes. Hen was a great fool to think that he could tight .Bill Grindstone and Old Pain, for everybody knows that he's no match for either of them. Ben's not a bad hitter, and he's pretty smart in fibbing; but though lie's pretty lively in getting on his legs, vou know we all agree that there's 110 bottom in liim, and although his style is showy, he has little real strength. You should have seen just how Bill Gladstone floored him the first round, there never was a fairer knock-down than he gave him. Then he seized him like a rat, and gave him such u shaking, and Dizzy looked quite white, and I don't wonder at it. I think Dir. will be more careful now that the conceit has been a little taken out ol'him. He's got such a black eye, and everybody says that he deserved quite what he got, and I know I'm precious glad of it, for he was awful cheeky. "We bresfc up in « few days, and I hope that wc han't, have to come to school again till February. So I've a jolly lot of holiday before me to write letters, which you know .1 am very fond of. And so I must conclude. Believe me, Your affectionate friend, Johnny Russell. »S7. Stip!ten's A.caihvuj, Tuesday. —Punch.