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Show 53 But Big Dick found an old pair of boxing gloves and Stinky didn't look much more ridiculous than anybody else with his boxing gloves and his mother's scarf, besides, when we got done marching on our side of the block Big Dick went into his Buckhorn Potato Chip Truck and brought a out a big xx gold can of potato chips and a case of cherry pop from his basement. We were really having a good xxxxx time there on Stinky's porch. Just then Stubie Stucka got in a xaxg scuffle with Funly fvaster over a handful of chips, because Stubie was the biggest and Funly was the fattest, and Stubie let Funly have it right in the stomach. Funly lost all his pop and chips, both the ones he'd eaten and the BXHxxxkaxxaXxxix ones he hadn't. Funly rolled onto the floor and gagged. He always got over-dramatic when somebody beat him up, not like Stinky who just cried and ran home. Stubie got up to kick Funly in the ribs when x Red grabbed him by the neck. Once he got him turned around he let him go. Stubie was a tough kid. He had short blond hair and both his parents were drunks. He carried a knife on his belt and liked to vandalize graveyards and xkx churches and wreck tree houses. His older brother was in Korea and both his sisters were pregnant but living at home. He was tall for his age too. "Keep your hands off mej" he said to Red. "Then keep your hands to yourself," said Red. That was one of Red's favorite lines before he belted somebody, but I'd never seen him hit anybody xxa other than me who wasn't grown up. Stubie went for his knife but Red grabbed his wrist and took the kxxg knife away. "You stole my knife," said Stubie. "You can have it when you leave," said Red. Everybody was pretty quiet, even Funly, until Stubie said he'd place kick Funly*s stomach into the next yard if Red didn't give him back his knife. Funly started gagging again. "Stubie," said Red. *If you touch Funly I'll flatten you." "You can't beat up a kid," said Stubie. "I'll sue you." "Stubie," Red said. "Keep your hands to xaxxax£ yourself." "Okay," said Stubie, and he turned around buried his foot in Funly. Funly howled and Red brought his knuckles down on the top of Stubie's head. Stubie kind of teetered a little bit like the last howling pin. When he tottered around enough to face Red his eyes |