Then Wash suddenly faced the helpless young man toward Sammy.

"Now ladies and gentlemen," he said in the tones of a showman addressing an audience, "this here pretty little feller from th' city's goin' t' show us Hill-Billies how t' spark a gal." The bully's friend applauded loudly, roaring at the top of his voice, "Marry 'em, Wash.

Marry 'em.

You can do hit as good as a parson! You'd make a good parson.

Let's see how'd you go at hit." The notion tickled the fancy of the giant, for it offered a way to make Sammy share the humiliation more fully.