I   HEAR   OF  THE   "RED   FOX."                      113
pick quarrels, he greatly laid aside in my case, out of re-
gard for the battle of the round-house. But whether it
was because I had done well myself, or because I had
been a witness of his own much greater prowess, is more
than I can tell. For though he had a great taste for
courage in other men, yet he admired it most in Alan
Breck.
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