"Booshoh he!- for shame!- it is a ram from the thickets of Engedi,
and as rugged as the valley of Jehosaphat!"
"It is a firstling of the flock," said Abel-Phittim, "I know him
by the bleating of his lips, and the innocent folding of his limbs.
His eyes are more beautiful than the jewels of the Pectoral, and his
flesh is like the honey of Hebron."
"It is a fatted calf from the pastures of Bashan," said the
Pharisee, "the heathen have dealt wonderfully with us!- let us raise
up our voices in a psalm!- let us give thanks on the shawm and on the
psaltery- on the harp and on the huggab- on the cythern and on the
sackbutt"
It was not until the basket had arrived within a few feet of the
Gizbarium, that a low grunt betrayed to their perception a hog of no
common size.
"Now El Emanu!" slowly, and with upturned eyes ejaculated the
trio, as, letting go their hold, the emancipated porker tumbled
headlong among the Philistines, "El Emanu!- God be with us- it is the
unutterable flesh!"
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