“A lion’s courage is nothing to mine!”
“Only just try me—a tiger is nothing compared to me!”
“I’d face the devil, I would!”
Thus gasped out many when they found that brave men only were to be spared.
“Oh, that’s it, eh?” said the Skeleton Chief. “I now find that all of you are brave.”
“I’m the bravest,” said Roger, very meekly; “on my word, I am!”
“You are, eh?”
“No, he isn’t,” said the coachman; “I am.”
“Oh, you are; then this footman must be a liar.”
“So he is,” said the coachman, “an awful liar; the biggest as ever lived!”