'But what are they whom he has conquered, oh my soul? Dirt and Iniquity is their name, evil are their ways, cuss and confound them!
'It was not worth the while for a gentleman to fight such scallawags—behold, a [pg 236] blind nigger in a mud-scow could have put them to flight—even a blind nigger should we have sent against them.
'Great and glorious is HOLLINS, splendid is his fame, great is his victory, beyond all those of the Meads and Prussians, Cherrynea and Chepultapec, Thermopilus and Vagrom.'
Then it was telegrammed all over the South, and the rest of mankind, that HOLLINS had peppered the fleet, and pulverized the last particle thereof into small-sized annihilation.
CHAPTER IV.
But on the evening of the first day there came yet other tidings of a reactive character,
Saying that a confounded abolitionist man-of-war was still there giving block-aid to Uncle Sam.
And HOLLINS, who was in town, being asked what this might mean,
Said, 'Fudge!