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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, JULY 1, 1882.
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FIGHTING FOR A PRIZE.
The Ntory of n Celebrated Fight ns told
by n Primitive Baptist Preacher
In the Noutliwcst.
Last week my brethertn, as I was a read*
Ingmy Bible, I found a story of a big fight
[I. Samuel, xvii.] It was powerful inter
estin’ and I studied it almost all the week.
There was two armies a campin’ on two
mountains right forenenst each other, some
good bottomland and a medder lot lyin’ be
tween ’em. In one of tbe armies there was
a big feller—a whoppin’ great big feller—
and every day he went down iiito the med
der lot and looked up the hill to tother
camp and just dared ’em. He told ’em to
pick their best man and send him down and
he’d fight him. And he just strutted
around there in soger close, and waited for
’em to send on their man. And such soger
close I never heard tell of afore.
He had a brass cap and brass trousers,
and a coat ntnde like mail bags where they
arc all ironed und riveted together. Bat
the fellers in t’other camp just clean flunk
ed. They daren't fight the big feller nary
one on ’em. They just all sneaked away,
and the big feller went back to camp. But
he didn't quit thar, the big fellow didn’t.
He was spilin’ for a fight, and he was bound
to have it He just went down to the bot
tom land, into the medder lot, every day,
mornin’ and evenin’, and dared ’em and
dared ’em. I tell you he pestered them
mightily. The old feller, Saul, the aineral,
he felt more chawed up and meaner than the
sogers, and when he couldn’t stan' it no
longer, lie told the boys that if any of them
would go down and lick the big feller, he’d
give him his gal and a right smart chance of
plunder. But they were all so skeered that
even that didn’t start one of ’em. The big
feller went down and dared ’em more'n a
month—forty days the Bible says.
I don’t know what they’d done if it hadn’t
a been that a pert little feller had come
down to the camp one day to fetch some
extra rations to his three big brothers that
their old dad sent them from home. Kind
old pap he was, and sharp, too, for be sent
along a big present to the boys cap’n. We’ll,
just as the little feller drove up they were
gwine out to fight, and the little feller left
his traps with the driver and legged it after
the sogers, and told his big brothers howdy.
Right there the old big feller came out and
dared ’em again, and they were all so
skeer’d that they just run like mad, back
into the camp and heered all the sogers tak
ing about him, and what the old Gineral
would give to have him licked. He asked
them a heap of questions about it all, and
his big brother he got mad at him, and
twitted him about keeping sheep, and gave
him a right smart of sass. He was plucky,
but, you see, he had to stan’ it ’cause it was
his big brother. Big brothers are mighty
mean sometimes.
But the little feller talked a heap with
the other sogers, and they told the old Gin
eral about him, and he told them to tell the
little feller to come and see him. The little
feller was mighty plucky, and he just Up
and told the old Gineral Saul that he’d
fight the big feller. The Gineral looked at
tbe handsome little feller—he was real hand
some—and says he, kinder softly, "I
reckon,” and shakin’ his head, "It's too
big a job; you’re only a chuck of a boy, and
lie'sanoldfighter.” Thelittlefeller.spanked
up and told the old Gineral that he had one
b’ar fight and he had killed the b’ar. He
said there was an old lion and a b'ur got
among his dad’s sheep, and was gwine off
with a lamb. He broke for him, and as
soon as he met up with the old b’ur, he
lainm’d him till the b’ar turned on him for
a hug, but he got one hand into the long
ha’r under his jaw, and be lamm’d him
with the other until he was dead. He'd
killed the lion and the b’ar and he know’d
ho was enough for the old big feller.
Then the little feller talked real religious
to the old Gineral. You see he'd got relig
ion afore that, and knowed that the Lord
would help a feller if he was right and got
into a tight place. He told Gineral Saul
that the Lord had made him mighty supple,
and looked out for him when the old lion
and the b’ar tried to get their paws onto
him; and he knowed He’d see him through
the fight with the old big feller, for he was
just darin’ and pesterin’ ’em to make game
of religion. When the old Gineral seed he
was so plucky and religious, too, he knowed
them’s the kind that fit powerful, and he told
him to go in, and he made a little prayer for
him hisself. Then the old Gineral put his
own soger close on the little feller, and
straped his sword onto him. But they were
a heap too big, and he shucked ’em off di
rectly, and made for a dry branch down in
the bottom. Then he hunted five little
rocks as smooth as a hen’s egg, put ’em in
a little bag, where he carried his snack when
he was a tendin’ sheep, got his sling fixed
all right, and hurried up to meet the old
feller in the medder lot. When he seed
him cornin’ he was powerful mad they’d
sent down such a little feller, and jawed
awful. But the little feller just talked back
religious, and kept his eyes peeled. And I
reckon the big feller couldn’t a been lookin'.
I’ve studied a heap on it, and I just know
the big feller couldn’t a been a lookin', for
the little feller got out his sling and drew
away and shied a little rock at him, and
down he tumbled. Then the little feller
rushed up and mounted him, just as an old
hunter loves to get on a b’ar arter he’s shot;
and he out with the big fellers long sword
and off with his head. Then it was them
Phillistine sinners turn to be skeer’d, and
they broke for the, brush, and all of them
children of Israel fellers just shouted and
charged ’em clean over the mountain into a
valley and then corn’d back and got all
their camp plunder.
Aly brethren, that’s the best story of a
fight I ever read after, and you can buy no
better book nor this Bible.
flOLW BOW, BOOK OF IHSTBDCTIOHS
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