Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-03-03

to his head, he asked, as an especIa favor,
that several thousand Of the game men
of the land, peel" AID come forth at
once, bringing with them several two
horse wagons in which to carry off the
dead
The men Of Israel, it would seem, were
not particularly anxious to grapple with
old Coli, as the boys delighted in calling
him, for they kept at proper distance
But at last, David, who had acquired Il
small reputation as champion of the
local light weights in Israel, became sick
Of this impudent blowing on the part of
old Coli, and resolved to go forth himself.
all alone, and have set-to with that gi-
gantic leader of the Philistine fancy
His fiiends did all in their power to dis
suade him from what they regarded as his
mad purpose, but all of no avail. Efforts
were indeed made to give him over to the
police and have him locked up in the sta
ton house for intended disturbance of the
peace, but the police of that day closely
resembled the police of the present day,
and could never be found when row
Was on hand. So little David "peeled"
and went forth Old Coli laughed and
outright when he saw the little man a.
coming, and sarcastically yelled to the
men of Israel on the mountains to send
some more of their infants, facetious]y ad-
ding that he wouldn't spank them very
hard. He then took tremendous chaw
of plug tobacco, and leaned up against !.
tree, and asked Dave, addressing him as
sonny" asked the little man what he
wanted. Does e little darling, parlng's
muzzer know it's out? Does e little fel-
ler want-e some sugar pums Would e
little lammy, pammy, like little rocky,
hossy, possy 2" Thus did Goliath con.
temptuously address David. "No," said
David, IL mean business. come to fight
Let the ropes be put up, bottle-holders
chosen and all prel'minaries settled. The
giant was dumb-founded Could he be-
lieve his eyes. He looked at the unfinch-
inS David again and was reluctantly COM
PEELED to acknowledge the accuracy of
his optics, Eemarking that during the
time he had. adorned this terrestrial sphere
he had witnessed several demonstrations
of somewhet astonishing character, but
this completely "kuocked the socks off
everything that had ever before come un-
der bis immediate observation, Mr.. Coli
summoned his seconds out from among
the Philistines, while little Dave called
his forth from among the men of Israel
We are unable at this late day to give
minute details of the rounds. In the first
round, Coli got his bunch of 6ves hand.
somely into Dawes mug, somewhat dis
figuring his smeller and drove him to the
ropes. On time being called for the sec
ond round, both came to the scratch in
good order, though the knowing ones OBJ
served slight shakiness in little Dawes
underpinnings. Coli clinched him and
would have pounded him to death. not
withstanding the loud and angry cries of
" foul" on both sides. had not David drew
a sling.shot and hit the giant on the head.
The giant fell, and David drew his sword
and cut off his Mr.. G,'sl head. The head
Pbilistine bottle-holder threw up the
sponge, then looking around astopislled,
took to his heels closely followed by the
other Philistines. This was the first prize
fight of we have any record. 1t was diff.
eren: from the fights of this our day.