"Went up the statue! what do you mean?" snapped Brown, foreseeing discomfiture.
"Oh! I thought you probably knew," retorted the triumphant Gray, "that the statue is hollow."
"Oh! ah! yes!" returned Brown, indifferently.
"And you didn't go up?" pressed Gray.
"Not exactly," feebly rejoined Brown.
"Nor sit in his nose?" continued Gray.
"Not exactly," muttered Brown.
"Nor look out of his eyes?" said Gray.
"I thought I wouldn't," murmured Brown, in full retreat.
"Oh!" smiled Gray, with the air of David holding the head of Goliath by the hair, and displaying it to mankind—"oh!"