Show UNCLE dant DANS 9 PROUD PHOUD BOAST no one could whip I 1 HIM nut but a man once came very terr wear near it the he recent adventures of a physician and n d a an u e a in a adow downtown down rl to town w n al alley 1 ey brings b ri to m mind ind a P pennsylvania y v D i a story which has never appeared in print says the st louis republic dan moody was a on the susilee lianna hanna river and it was lus his boast that lie he conid lick arty any man on the river from the south of the Cherni chemung ing to havre de grace dan lived altow ut towanda an in 11 bradford radford county and finally yew old eld and rheumatic but no dandy g jim corbett had robbed him of his champion honors indis in his old agathe age the boys used to put a stranger ht ranger up to question dan about his many fights find and after dan pot got thoroughly bly interested and was lw boasting asting freely of his youthful exploits this question was sprung on him allut but uncle dan anybody ever lick you 61 no sir never pot got licked in my en ell durin life the next nest question was but uncle dan you came near getting licked once di ant you seems to me that IV ive e heard that you came awful near getting licked just once tell us about that j wont vont you the old man had to be pressed to g get c t the story out of him but he would tell it oce occasionally asio nally and here it is once I 1 was ban haulin lina a load of boards along the road from a mill up on sugar croal it was an aw awful ful hot day clay and goin past a piece of woods when the i thade hade only came half way across the road I 1 met a feller in a buggy turn out says he turn out yer herself self says 1 I see ye fair further first says he be drive out into the sun yourself well I 1 drive out and I 1 did tell him what I 1 thought g of him and we kem to blows I 1 jumped down offen the load and he got outer his buggy and we went at it and we fit and fit and fit but neither of us seemed to get the best of it here the old man would pause a moment until he was asked askil but which of you turned out uncle dan then lie he would reply oh I 1 did we fit so long that the sun went down so that there was shade clear across the road and I 1 turned out I 1 care then of course and the nearest I 1 ever came to getting licked |