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Charge!" he yelled, and back came an answering shout, "Fear not, Sahib, we are with you!" And thus was launched on the flood of death a little band of heroes, that they might save an army. But ever since the day when David slew Goliath, the God of Battles has not always sided with the big battalions.
We called him Goliath, he was so tall: strong as an elephant, too: a powerful hand at a horse-rake and mowing-machine. Well, well, how time flies, to be sure!
How could we know any better? According to Goliath, with whom I often had a friendly chat, this was quite out of the ordinary run to have such luck in the "Channel."
A burst of frightful roaring shook the loft, and interrupted Goliath. "Hark to them!" he exclaimed; "hunger has driven the beasts wild. If I could roar, I should do as they do. I have never seen Judas and Cain as they are to-night; they leap in their cages as if they'd knock all to pieces. As for Death, her eyes shine more than usual like candles poor Death!"
At the sound of the breaking windows and these cries of distress, the passers-by, of whom the greater number believed in the stories about the poisoners, rushed into the shop to aid in securing Goliath.
Every jealousy stirred by this new regime, every element that found itself galled by the rearrangement, was driven to that other influence which had sprung up in the community and it was an influence which was growing like a young Goliath. So far that growth was hidden and furtive, but for that reason only the more dangerous.
And as they make use of the Old Testament as a foundation, admitted, and necessarily admitted by Christians, to be of divine authority, and are surrounded by the bulwarks they have raised out of the demolished entrenchments of their adversaries, I do not see but that their castles strength may laugh a siege to scorn. And after reviewing, and revolving, over and over in my own mind the arguments on both sides, I am obliged to believe, that the stoutest Polemical Goliath who may venture to attack it, especially their strong hold their arguments about the Messiahship, will find to his cost, that when his weak point is but known, the mightiest Achilles must fall before the feeblest Paris, whose arrow is aimed at his heel.
If we should seek an emblem for King David's smooth, round stone which he flung at Goliath, we should call it the truth for the truth never fails to reach the mark. Austen's opening was not long, his words simple and not dramatic, but he seemed to charge them with something of the same magnetic force that compelled people to read and believe "Uncle Ton's Cabin" and the "Song of the Shirt."
He talked of the news great news for his side of the Triumph, and, opening his navy list, made a pencil mark. "She's off!" he said. The book was full of marks. In methodical sailor fashion he had been crossing them off since the war began: British and German Blucher, Scharnhorst, Irresistible, Goliath, and the rest millions of dollars and hundreds of men at a stroke.
My gloomy cogitations were abruptly terminated by the order to "unrow" we were alongside. Somehow or other all hands managed to scramble on board, and assist in hoisting the boat up. As soon as she was secured we slunk away forward, but we had hardly got below before a tremendous summons from Goliath brought us all aft again at the double quick.
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