and three others had taken sanctuary, and where,
amid flying missiles and the crashing of stained
glass, they had fought off the mob till rescued
by platoons of constables; of pitched and giddy
battles on stairways, galleries, and balconies; of
smashed windows, collapsed stairways, wrecked
lecture halls, and broken heads and bones and
then, with a regretful sigh, he looked at me and
said: "How I envy you big, strong men! I m
such a little mite I can t do much when it comes
to fighting."

And I, walking a head and shoulders above my
two companions, remembered my own husky West
and the stalwart men it had been my custom, in
turn, to envy there. Also, as I looked at the
mite of a youth with the heart of a lion, I thought,
this is the type that on occasion rears barricades
and shows the world that men have not forgotten
how to die.

But up spoke my other companion, a man of
twenty-eight who eked out a precarious existence
in a sweating den.

"I m a earty man, I am," he announced. " Not
like the other chaps at my shop, I ain t. They
consider me a fine specimen of manhood. W y,
d ye know, I weigh one hundred and forty
pounds!"

I was ashamed to tell him that I weighed one

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