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ETHICS OF BOXING AND MANLY SPORT.

Then they inveighed bitterly against each other; till at last they came to the question of how they should fight. But once more the tenderness of

No. 35. No. 36.
SLEGH.
Sharp-pointed Tuatha Dé Danann Spears. (See page 177.)

their old friendship overcame Cuchulaind, and he implored Ferdiad to withdraw from the combat:—

"Findabar, the daughter of the king,—
The reward which has been proffered thee,—
To numbers before thee has been falsely promised,
And many like thee has she wounded.