Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 234
popping withmy revolver. I also, in imitation of the natives,called him various abusive names, and reflected in- If he touched the see-saw with any part of hisponderous body, I should be shot up—where, Icould not exactly tell ; if he missed the see-saw, Ishould stay down, and it would be all up… … THE RHINOCEROSGOES INTO THE PIT. sultingly upon his ancestry. At last he screamed,or perhaps I should say grunted, with rage (wheth-er at the bullets or the abuse, I cannot say) andwithdrew a few steps for a charge. Notwithstand-ing a slight sinking sensation, I fired my last car-tridge and shouted…
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