V
I
was
a proud man, that was my downfall. I never hid away when I heard that anyone was looking for me. On the contrary I’d usually go to meet them instead. It seemed a foolish way to live a life, to skulk away whenever a breath of rumour passed one’s way. Man was not born to live like that. God gave him two fists and two feet and a head to fight with. I have spent all my life fighting and I know that I speak the truth. There are many things I do not know for I never went to school much, or to church either for that matter. I have never conversed with learned men, save those learned in the sports I am fond of—but I can tell you this and it is the truth, a man who is afraid is already half a man. Be fearless, by God, and you have life in your hand; the world may break your body but your
