The Porcupine is a ſmall thing not much unlike a Hedgehog; ſomething bigger, vvho ſtands upon his guard and proclaimes a Noli me tangere, to man and beaſt, that ſhall approach too neare him, darting his quills into their legges, and hides.

The white men are always put on that side of the board which commences by row I, and the black men are placed opposite.

That kills a boxer: it sucks the air out of you – sucks the life out of you, and De Jesús did not have much life left in this fight.

The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.