'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.
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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!
'Go to, it is naught. Now I come to think of it, there _was_ one
infernal little sneaking 90-gun Yankee frigate,
'Which, hearing of my coming, ran away six hours before the battle--ere
that I had peppered 'em.'
But lo! even as he spake came yet another message, declaring there were
twain.
Then HOLLINS declared, 'It is a d----d lie, and he who says it is
another--an abolitionist is he in his heart. Did I not pepper 'em?'
But lo, even as he sware there came yet another,
Saying, 'Let not my lord be angry, but with these eyes have I seen it;
by many others was it perceived.
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