CHAPTER XXIX 

"Guess I'll have to wash my hands of him," Collins told Johnny. "I know Del Mar must have been right when he said he was the limit, but I can't get a clue to it." 

This followed upon a fight between Michael and Collins. Michael, more morose than ever, had become even crusty-tempered, and, scarcely with provocation at all, had attacked the man he hated, failing, as ever, to put his teeth into him, and receiving, in turn, a couple of smashing kicks under his jaw. 

"He's like a gold-mine all right all right," Collins meditated, "but I'm hanged if I can crack it, and he's getting grouchier every day. Look at him. What'd he want to jump me for? I wasn't rough with him. He's piling up a sour-ball that'll make him fight a policeman some day." 

A few minutes later, one of his patrons, a tow-headed young man who was boarding and rehearsing three performing leopards at Cedarwild, was asking Collins for the loan of an Airedale. 

"I've only got one left now," he explained, "and I ain't safe without two." 

"What's happened to the other one?" the master-trainer queried. 

"Alphonso--that's the big buck leopard--got nasty this morning and settled his hash. I had to put him out of his misery. He was gutted like a horse in the bull-ring. But he saved me all right. If it hadn't been for him I'd have got a mauling. Alphonso gets these bad streaks just about every so often. That's the second dog he's killed for me."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who sparred?
2. Who got in a fight?
3. Which two men fought?
Q2:
1. Were Michael and Collins friendly before their fight?
2. Did Michael and Collins have a friendly rapport before their fight?
3. Before they sparred, did Michael and Collins have a warm relationship?
Q3:
1. Who won the fight between Michael and Collins?
2. Who bested the other in the fight between Michael and Collins?
3. Who was the winner of the spar between Michael and Collins?
Q4:
1. Who is speaking in the passage?
2. Who has something to say in the passage?
3. Who speaks up in the paragraph?
Q5:
1. Is Michael even tempered?
2. Does Michael generally stay calm?
3. Is Michael generally not one to easily anger?
Q6:
1. What comparison does Collins make to Michael?
2. What does Collins liken Michael to?
3. What does Collins say that Michael is like?
