Who essayed at once to take him.

Hand-to-hand in duel comic,

They careered with flintlocks rusty,

They embraced with bayonets blunted,

Dunlap all the while retreating,

Huffman all the while pursuing,

Till a wide ravine arrested,

Stopped their wild, ferocious progress.

Not for long the pause, however;

Dunlap, lithe of limb and active,