"Squeeze in, Jimmy; we jes' boun' to git outer this
'fore somebody finds it out."
He backed the other child close to the wall and pressed so
hard against him that Jimmy screamed aloud and began to
pound him on the head with his chubby fists.
Billy would not submit tamely to any such treatment. He
reached his hand behind him and gave the smaller boy's cheek
a merciless pinch. The fight was on. The two little boys,
laced up tightly as they were in a stout pair of stays,
pinched and scratched, and kicked and jerked. Suddenly
Billy, leaning heavily against Jimmy, threw him flat on his
back and fell on top of him.
Bennie Dick, sitting on the floor, had up to this time
watched the proceedings with an interested eye; now, thinking
murder was being committed, he opened his big, red mouth and
emitted a howl that could be heard half a mile. It immediately
brought his mother to the open door. When she saw the children
squirming on the floor in her only corset, her indignation
knew no bounds.
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