"'Huhh! huhh! haw!--t'ink I'm gwyin to fite puttee lilly baby? I want King Sol or Abnah, or a big soljur man--' "'Hole your jaw--I'll make you laugh tother side, ole grizzle-gruzzle, 'rectly--I'm man enough for biggust jiunt Fillystine.' "'Go way, poor lilly boy! go home, lilly baby, to your mudder, and git sugar plum--I no want kill puttee lilly boy--' "'Kum on!--don't be afeerd!--don't go for to run away!--I'll ketch you and lick you--' "'You leetul raskul--I'll kuss you by all our gods--I'll cut out your sassy tung--I'll break your blackguard jaw--I'll rip you up and give um to the dogs and crows--' "'Don't cuss so, ole Golly! I 'sposed you wanted to fite juul--so kum on with your old irun-pot hat on--you'll git belly full mighty quick--' "'You nasty leetle raskul, I'll kum and kill you dead as chopped sassudge.'" Here the preacher represented the advance of the parties; and gave a florid and wonderfully effective description of the closing act partly by words and partly by pantomime; exhibiting innumerable marches and counter-marches to get to windward, and all the postures, and gestures, and defiances, till at last he personated David putting his hand into a bag for a stone; and then making his cotton handkerchief into a sling, he whirled it with fury half a dozen times around his head, and then let fly with much skill at Goliath; and at the same instant halloing with the frenzy of a madman--"Hurraw for lilly Davy!" At that cry he, with his left hand, struck himself a violent slap on the forehead, to represent the blow of the sling-stone hitting the giant; and then in person of Goliath he dropped _quasi_ dead upon the platform amid the deafening plaudits of the congregation; all of whom, some spiritually, some sympathetically, and some carnally, took up the preacher's triumph shout-- "Hurraw! for lilly Davy!" How the Rev. Mizraim Ham made his exit from the boards I could not see--perhaps he rolled or crawled off. But he did not suffer decapitation, like "ole Golly": since in ten minutes, his woolly pate suddenly popped up among the other sacred heads that were visible over the front railing of the rostrum, as all kept moving to and fro in the wild tossings of religious frenzy.