Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 165: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

‘“ TARA Py RNS By A. D. TEMPLE “ WSEE,” said Link Brown, looking up from his paper, ‘“‘ that Firpo has gone back to South America and fought in Callao with a Peruvian pug, knocking him out the second round.” “ That ’ll comfort him some for havin’ bit off more’n he could chew when he tried to take the belt from Jack Dempsey; maybe after he’s licked a few more of them little South American pugs he’ll have learned how to use both his mitts and git feeling sassy again, ready to have another tryout with Jack, eh?” said Jed Styles, ex-aviator of the “ Sure he will, and why not?” answered Pat McGoogle, as with a newly lit cigar in his teeth he leaned across his counter, his work over for the day. ‘“ But no South 955 American can take the belt from Jack Dempsey.” ‘Pat, when Dempsey was knocked over the ropes that big Patagonian giant musta thought he had the belt and the boodle in his breeches pocket, but he had another think coming. It was the same way in France, the Heinies said we didn’t know how to fight and were breaking all the rules of the game, that we didn’t even know when we were licked, but kept on fighting. Dempsey is that kind of a guy himself, that’s why I’m for him.” “Jed, what d’ye call him a ‘ Patagonian giant’ for? Ain’t he from Buenos Aires in the Argentine? I never heard he was from Patagonia,” asked Jeff Tate. “Well, Jeff, it comes to the same thing. CoOmiclbooks.€©