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"Monsieur," said Serpolet, "you don't seem used to this fun; let a graybeard and an old huntsman advise you. I have seen the animal actually seen him a terrible boar, I promise you, as black as ink, clean legs, and ears well apart, all true signs of courage. As sure as my name is Serpolet, he will make mince-meat of us sure to charge.
Mesty then came forward, with a sabre in one hand and a pistol in the other, and then addressed the seamen of the frigate: "I tell you dis, my lads you not so strong as we you not got better arms we not under gun of frigate now, and ab determination not to go board. 'Pose you want us, come take us 'pose you can. By all de power, but we make mince-meat of you, anyhow."
We were paddling along, admiring the wonderful foliage one forest seeming, as it were, to rise up out of the top of another, the lowest being higher and thicker than any forest in northern regions when suddenly a huge black monster was seen swimming rapidly towards us. "An alligator!" exclaimed McRitchie. "He'll make mince-meat of us in a moment. My gun quick, quick!"
Captain Semmes captured the Ariel once, and it is to be deeply regretted that that thrifty buccaneer hadn't made mince-meat of her, because she is a miserable tub at best, and hasn't much more right to be afloat than a second- hand coffin has. I do not know her proprietor, Mr. C. Vanderbilt.
Steene had prepared her mince-meat, and had devoted much butter, fine flour, and labour, to the making of a batch of pies in the morning; but they proved to be so very heavy when they came out of the oven, that she could only think with trembling of the moment when her husband should catch sight of them on the supper-table.
"But you know you wouldn't fire on him, Cy, unless he came near making mince-meat of us. If he should charge, we could make a dash for the nearest trees. Let's risk it if we run across any tracks!" "And in the meantime, Herb will be wondering where we are, vowing vengeance on us, and waiting for the kettle while we're waiting for the moose," argued Garst. "It won't do, Chick.
O, don't cry so, Miss Fabens! as I was goin' to say I dremp a shaggy wolf ketched 'im, and craunched the little feller down, as ye'd eat a tender quail. Miss Fabens, don't cry now! he was all out o' misery perty quick. I dremp he was dead afore he was stript, or his little dimple hands was chanked to mince-meat; don't cry now."
Then the cat came to a wheat-field, where the reapers were reaping with all their might. He bounded in upon them: "The king is coming past to-day, and if you do not tell him that this wheat belongs to my lord the Marquis of Carabas, I will have you every one chopped as small as mince-meat."
In a word, De Sylva commanded public sympathy but small resources; Barraca was unpopular but controlled the navy and part of the army. Given such conditions with the added absurdity that the troops on both sides were most unwilling to face long-range rifle fire but would cheerfully hack each other to mince-meat with knives and a tedious, indeterminate campaign is the certain outcome.
It will be far better to administer plenty of "Robinson Crusoe" and "Sinbad" and "Arabian Nights," good ringing old ballads with a healthy sentiment at bottom of manly honor and womanly affection, fairy stories and ancient legends, than all the mince-meat histories and biographies that nurse-wise have been chewed soft for the use of tender gums.
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