Like lightnin' from the mount'in blast, he made one bounce for the big dog, and oh! what a fight there was! They rolled, they gnashed, they knocked over the wood-horse and sent chips a-flyin' all ways at wonst.

I thought Lord Edward would whip in a minute or two; but he didn't, for the bull stuck to him like a burr, and they was havin' it, ground and lofty, when I hears some one run up behind me, and turnin' quick, there was the 'Piscopalian minister, 'My! my! my!' he hollers; 'what a awful spectacle! Aint there no way of stoppin' it ?' 'No, sir,' says I, and I told him how I didn't want to stop it, and the reason why.

Then says he, 'Where's your master ?' and I told him how you was away.

'Isn't there any man at all about ?' says he.

'No,' says I.'Then,' says he, 'if there's nobody else to stop it, I must do it myself.' An' he took off his coat.