The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1852-11-13
A SELECT EDeTALE.
The Satisfaction of a Gentleman.
" Sir, I will have satisfaction p

The words were uttered in lou(
and angry tone, by military looking
4 personage, in the saloon of. one of oul
most respectable clubs, frequented by
opulent. mefchanis, country souires
bankers, and lords, with sprinkline
of naval and military gentlemen.
Sir, willihave. satisfaction ~ 50 say.
ing, and buttoning up his military sur.
tout with the air of man who has de.
termined on some desperate course. the
offended hero vanished out of the room
He was imme mediately observed to mount
handsome phaeton. drawn BY a pair
of smart greys. His tiger leaped up
behind, and the equipage drove off
with a furions clatter up St. James's
street.
Satisfaction !" of course evert one
within hearing knows the meaning of
the words, when uttered BY = man of
honor and gentleman" In fashioua-
able circles satisfaction" means the
chance of projecting an ounce of lead
in the shape of bullet into some of
Tending friends body but the man of
wounded honor is equally "a satisfied D
If his friend sends the bullet into his
own head; and if his head resists it.
then he may thank the thickness of his
skull, rather than the soundness of bis
brains Two men of honor fall out
aboutthe most trifline matter. perhaps.
inffamed with wine, begin to talk an
srily,-and one of them uses an often
sive word; Instantly the other calls for
. satisfaction" The two friends -
call them fools rather-cotne out in the
cool grey of the next morning. with
two othet ''friendsn equally foolish,
and then, in some chalk pit or ravine.
each sets himself up as target for the
other. Two bullets instantly speed np-
Oh their fools errand. They miss
Well! the two seconds step up" in
tetfere to prevent further hostilities. p
declaring that their friends honor is
satisfied. - and they march off 10
breakfast, thinking they have done
some valiant feat: or, the balls hit their
mark; one, if not both, lie on the grass /:
q bullet has lodged in the spine of one,
and another bullet is in the shoulder
joint of the other. Forth steps wiry
man with box of implements, devised |
for the cutting out. extracting. or
away of the little ballets
from flesh and bones All with one
of them it is loo late: he lies on the
grass, breathless. his lips apart, his I
syes glazed he is dead; he has had
his DESIRE" the satisfaction of a gen.
Ileman.o The other, after submitting
10 the tortures of bullet extraction. IS
borne from the field on a litter, "satis-
ied;" he has "killed his man. Such
IS bonor" in the mouth of fools.
But We must return to our story
Scarcely had the gentleman of wound
I'd honor rushed out of the house, ere
he friends ofthe other assembled round
lim to ask a4Vhat is the mattera and
low did you fall outs"
"The matters!m said the offending
who sat Somewhat Supplied
il The abrupt and threatening exit Of
lis military friend why, the fellow
8 as ifascibls:as . turkey cock. We
ell into dispute about politics. about {
Fhich he positively knows nothing |
lie became more and more insoleni, |
nd his arguments were at length so a
bsurd, that could not help bursting O
ut lang ghiug and Aelling him he was a i
ullet. headed fool! % i
".Is that all p'said a. city merchant n
why, everybody knew that long ago"
/" "Ay, but 10 tell him of it,p said an a
her, : | fear mischief will come of "
"a l.
A considerable damp seemed to have
Zen thrown upon the spirits of all the is
and, the circle gradually oil
oke up. The gentleman who had
en the cause of the explosion. at sa
myth rose and went home, not over or
10 from anxiety. He now regretted m
> use of the. offensive word, and yefl
felt that it had not been undeserved. M
i being : military man-for be was tn
,anker in good business, and with ex- fol
Isive conneetions-he could scatcely ou
tiaeS what the other would do in re- ioE
ence To the satisfaction which he hi.
4 spoken of. yet he had some nn-
asan, naisgiyings about the issna aft
rhe banker was not left long Ia. doubt. sui
xt rnatBiag, sitter an anxious night, hit
lunderiisg rat-tat came to his door. ;
--n3;atc1e therpa ffers oaatla n,as, f. h.,