ght for the Pope.'

'I don't care for the young fellow,' said the man in the snuff-coloured
coat.

'I know you don't,' said the other, 'so get up, and serve him out.'

'I could serve out three like him,' said the man in the snuff-coloured
coat.

'So much the better for you,' said the other, 'the present work will be
all the easier for you, get up, and serve him out at once.'

The man in the snuff-coloured coat did not stir.

'Who shows the white feather now?' said the simple-looking man.

'He! he! he!' tittered the man in black.

'Who told you to interfere?' said the Radical, turning ferociously
towards the simple-looking man; 'say another word and I'll--' 'And you!'
said he, addressing himself to the man in black, 'a pretty fellow you to
turn against me, after I had taken your part. I tell you what, you may
fight for yourself. I'll see you and your Pope in the pit of Eldon
before I fight for either of you, so make the most of it.'

'Then you won't fight?' said I.

'Not for the Pope,' said the Radical; 'I'll see the Pope--'

'Dear me!' said I, 'not fight for the Pope, whose religion you would turn
to, if you were inclined for any. I see how it is, you are not fond of
fighting; but I'll give you another chance--you were abusing the Church
of England just now: I'll fight for it--will you fight against it?'

'Come, Hunter,' said the other, 'get up, and fight against the Church of
England.'

'I have no particular quarrel against the Church of England,' said the
man in the snuff-coloured coat, 'my quarrel is with the aristocracy. If
I said anything against the Church, it was merely for a bit of corollary,
as Master William Cobbett would say; the quarrel with the Church belongs
to this fellow in black, so let him carry it on. However,' he continued
suddenly, 'I won't slink from the matter either; it shall never be said
by the fine fellows on the quay of New York that I wouldn't fight against
the Church of England. So down with the beggarly aristocracy, the
Church, and the Pope to the bottom of the pit of Eldon, and may the Pope
fall first, and the others upon him.'

Thereupon, dashing his hat on the table, he placed himself in an attitude
of offence and rushed forward. He was, as I have said before, a powerful
fellow, and might have proved a dangerous antagonist, more especially to
myself, who, after my recent encounter with the Flaming Tinman, and my
wrestlings with the evil one, was in anything but f