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Of course they took no interest in the fight as a fight . Certainly not -LRB- but it was observed that Flaherty of the Sixth stopped the fight most angrily and peremptorily when it was over , and that no sign of anger or peremptoriness escaped him until it was over -- and he happened to pass behind the gymnasium , curiously enough , just as it started -RRB- ... . Good advice was showered upon Dam from all sides . He was counselled to live on meat , to be a vegetarian , to rise at 4 a.m. and swim , to avoid all brain-fag , to run twenty miles a day , to rest until the fight , to get up in the night and swing heavy dumb-bells , to eat no pudding , to drink no tea , to give up sugar , avoid ices , and deny himself all `` tuck '' and everything else that makes life worth living . He did none of these things -- but simply went on as usual , save in one respect . For the first time since the adder episode , he was really happy . Why , he did not know , save that he was about to `` get some of his own back , '' to strike a blow against the cruel coward Incubus -LRB- for he persisted in identifying Harberth with the Snake and in regarding him as a materialization of the life-long Enemy -RRB- , and possibly to enjoy a brief triumph over what had so long triumphed over him .