{"product_id":"2940013488670","title":"RAB AND HIS FRIENDS","description":"RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour-and-thirty years ago, Bob Ainslie and I were coming up Infirmary\u003cbr\u003eStreet from the High School, our heads together, and our arms\u003cbr\u003eintertwisted, as only lovers and boys know how, or why.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen we got to the top of the street, and turned north, we espied a\u003cbr\u003ecrowd at the Tron Church. \"A dog-fight!\" shouted Bob, and was off; and\u003cbr\u003eso was I, both of us all but praying that it might not be over before we\u003cbr\u003egot up! And is not this boy-nature? and human nature too? and don't we\u003cbr\u003eall wish a house on fire not to be out before we see it? Dogs like\u003cbr\u003efighting; old Isaac says they \"delight\" in it, and for the best of all\u003cbr\u003ereasons; and boys are not cruel because they like to see the fight. They\u003cbr\u003esee three of the great cardinal virtues of dog or man--courage,\u003cbr\u003eendurance, and skill--in intense action. This is very different from a\u003cbr\u003elove of making dogs fight, and enjoying, and aggravating, and making\u003cbr\u003egain by their pluck. A boy,--be he ever so fond himself of fighting,--if\u003cbr\u003ehe be a good boy, hates and despises all this, but he would have run off\u003cbr\u003ewith Bob and me fast enough: it is a natural, and a not wicked interest,\u003cbr\u003ethat all boys and men have in witnessing intense energy in action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoes any curious and finely-ignorant woman wish to know how Bob's eye at\u003cbr\u003ea glance announced a dog-fight to his brain? He did not, he could not,\u003cbr\u003esee the dogs fighting: it was a flash of an inference, a rapid\u003cbr\u003einduction. The crowd round a couple of dogs fighting is a crowd\u003cbr\u003emasculine mainly, with an occasional active, compassionate woman\u003cbr\u003efluttering wildly round the outside and using her tongue and her hands\u003cbr\u003efreely upon the men, as so many \"brutes;\" it is a crowd annular,\u003cbr\u003ecompact, and mobile; a crowd centripetal, having its eyes and its heads\u003cbr\u003eall bent downwards and inwards, to one common focus.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070105501936,"sku":"2940013488670","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013488670_p0.jpg?v=1763581944","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013488670","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}