Penny Dreadfuls, 1897 · page 29 of 248
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24 THE BOUNDING BROTHERS, _ ing to hostilities. But he would give his tormentor just one more warning. “Now look here, Count Macaroni,’’ he cried, so fiercely that the Jtalian jumped back, ‘‘I’ve stood ~ your blooming cheek long enough, and, if you won’t Shut your jaw, I?ll shut your eyes, and so alter the Shape o: your ugly phiz that when you go back with your peanut barrow your dear mamma won’t know her Stefano Mordicano, Lord knows what O.”? With a Rtowl, Mordicano made toward the dress- ing tent, hissing something about a stiletto. "No, you don’t!’ shouted Sammy, jumping in front of him and squaring off excitedly. It is doubtful how the thing would have ended, had not a third person aus at that juncture appeared upon the scene. comicbooks 3