Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-24

| his name in? Tell me ABOUT the Tiger.
"'What tiger2' said O'Dowd. In the
name of mystery, what tiger 2
"'Why, the tiger we're going 70 SHOOT
"I'm going to shoot no tiger. I'm going
to shoot O'Flaherty.
g Shoot O'Flaherty What are You
going to shoot him for ? -.
".Why, didn't you understand: de tod
me I'd got chewbercles.
"'And so this precious note OF yours,
said /, producing the epistle, was TO tedi II
Inc that you're going to fight O,flaheriy
OaDowd. Il thought I'd put it delicately.'
:. nv love, YOU put it so delicately that
T Thought it ali referred to,tiger shooting.
ARD did YOU sou said Dennis with
some pride 'Begad / always was neat
hand at letter-writing. l.l Z,
g But you're not serious hope, O'Dowd,
| said. you don't really mean that you
intenato shoot 0'Flaherty p q II -,
"sTll be shot i'll don't returned O'Dowd,
very decidedly. He told me I'd got chew
bercles in my lungs -
And there was very little doubt that
O'Flahcrty was right. A few years after
wards the fact became fatally evident.
DeatiA and a p. III. examination, put 1t be-
yond ali question But even if there had
been no. grounds for it, the idea OF shooting
a man for such a reason as this was absurd.
"'MYsdear fellow said | to O'Dowd,
this must not be allowed TO go on. can't
consent to act as your friend in such case
as this. 1t would be a different matter If
he'd given you the lie, Or
"fGiyen me the liep said O'Dowd
|, Didn't he tell me I'd got chewbercles,
when haven't anything of the kind. Isn't
that giving me the lie, to all ntents and
purposes; giving me the lie in the throat
as deep as to the lungs, as Shakespeare says,
Ell? Once for all, will you undertake the
inatter?" l
SID rather be excused, / said.
Very good said O'Dowd; then / wish
you good morning I'll go and call on
O'Grady' l.za|.
"O'Grady! The most determined fire eater
in the empire. IL he called on O'Grady
it would end in fight as certainly as
doomsday. If undertook it, we might
perhaps come to some arrangement; so,
with much reluctance, I told Dennis that
he might command me.
I" knew you'd never spoil sport said
ODowd. Now, look mere, Morley, you go
at5once to OiFlaherty, and give him to un-
derstand that require
-" For heavens sake, my dear O'Dowd,'
said l. anxiously, don't be too hard upon
him. Put it as peaceably as you can
".Just what I'm going to do, said
ODowd You go to OFlaherty, and tell
him that require written apology, which
must contain confession that he was
drunk at the time of speaking, and deela-
ration of his full belief that I've no more
got cbewbercles than he has. If he declines
to give this, | expect immediate satisfac-
ton. ! can't put it more peaceably than
that, now canl? 2 FL.
G." certainly thought it possible, but as
O'Dowd adhered to his own opinion, that
did no good at all. So, armed with this
lpeaceable message, | took my way to
O'Flahcrty, whom I found sitting lazily
upon a cane-bottomed chair, and surround
ed by soda-water bottles.
CHA! Morley said he, delighted to see
you, uron me conscience. VIII you take
peg? * No! I've done little else ever
since [ got up. Well! yes, was little
sprung last night just drappie in me ee,
as that Scotch fellow says in his Internal
brogue. Begad looking back upon last
nights proceedings, reminds me of those
dissolving views, whore each picture gets
misty and runs into the next
z SCI suppose, then, you have no very dis
tinct recollection of the people you met last
night, have you?' inquired.
"'Faith no. said he; my memory might
be clearer
lowell, the fact is, I'm come upon a very
mission. You don't remember
meeting O'Dowd, do you?
"It's O'Dowd you mean!' said O'Fiaher-
ty, thoughtfully. 'Begad, then, 1 don't
"'Ah! You did meet him, though, and,
he says, insulted him greatly
"'And did insult him ? said O'Flaherty,
taking UP a soda-water bottle. That's
mighty curious. How did do it?' III
"'Well, it seems you said something
about his having tubercle ofthe lung, and
he does not like it. He's rather touchy
about his chest, you know
say, 1 know And did tell him that 2
ssttYes, you told him that he'd got tuber-
cle and he took the speech so much to
heart, that / am come from him to say that
he expects an apology.
"'Begad, anu were you told to say that?
az was, indeed; and I'm sure, my dear
fellow, you must see how extravagantly
absurd we shall all make ourselves if this
affair proceeds any further. Every mess
room in India will be laughing at the Tu-
the truth of this, and the absolute necessity
of putting stop to it at once By Jove,
sir, we shall never hear the last of it till the
day of our death
"'You may say that, indeed, said OLA
herty, laughing. Faith, it won't be only
O'Dowd who'll be troubled with chewber-
cles, will it?
emo, that it won't. It's not generally
considered an infectious disorder, but it
will infect us at any rate, said |.
"'Change ofai will be the only thing
for US, said O'Flaherty
"Then, look here, my dear O'Flaherty,
said |, pushing a writing-case towards him,
Just scratch two or three lines to say that
last night you were, as you've just said,
troubled with drappie in your ee; and
you may adults as well to do the thing
handsomely while you are about it-that
you have perfect faith, ha ha perfect
faith in the integrity of 'O'Dowd's lungs.
Come, what do you say?'
"Pop went the soda-water
: "'rhat,' said JOFlaherty.
"'Thatt Explain, please
"That's all the apology that ven get
from me-
"eBut, my good sir, if you don't ap-,
explain in some way, O'Dowd insists upon
fighting
'e'And by the blessed St. Patrick, said
O'Flaherty, his speech becoming ten times
more Irish than before at the mention ofthe
national pastime-' and by the blessed
Saint Patrick, I'll humor his fancy. fits
foighting he names, I'll foight him with all
me sowl-with all the pleasure in life, be-
CAD. Yecan't fright Tim O'Flaherty into
an apology by telling him that foighting's
the alternative, promise ye.'
GO Fright you,' said /, 1 never dreamed
of frightening YOU. But reflect for a mo-