Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"I ain't ashamed of admittin' I was scairt," Billy growled.
"You're a regular goat, an' you sure got my goat half a dozen
times. But I'm mad now. It's mostly trainin', an' I'm goin' to
camp right here an' train till I can challenge you to a race out
an' around an' back to the beach."


"Done," said Hall, putting out his hand in ratification. "And
some time, when we get together in San Francisco, I'll lead you
up against Bierce--the one this cove is named after. His favorite
stunt, when he isn't collecting rattlesnakes, is to wait for a
forty-mile-an-hour breeze, and then get up and walk on the
parapet of a skyscraper--on the lee side, mind you, so that if he
blows off there's nothing to fetch him up but the street. He
sprang that on me once."

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