Chapter-3 But Gerald was loud-mouthed and bullheaded, as his mother fondly phrased it, hair trigger of temper, quick with his fists and possessed of a chip on his shoulder so large as to be almost visible to the naked eye.

But Gerald was loud-mouthed and bullheaded, as his mother fondly phrased it, hair trigger of temper, quick with his fists and possessed of a chip on his shoulder so large as to be almost visible to the naked eye.