North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-12-01
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with him, is coward and knave. Do
you follow me now, Monsieur le Comte 2''
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with him, is coward and a knave. d,
you follow me now, Monsieur le Comte p
~ came here, Monsieur
"Never mind for what you came,-b,
content with what you will get. For ez-
ample,-to follow what was Observing
if man skilled with the small sword, fo1
the mere vicious love of quarreling, goad
to madness boy who has never fenced il
his life, and kills him, that man is mur
derer; and more, cowardly and knavisl
murderer"
81 think catch your meaning, but i
you have pistols here" foamed the bully
II do not come to eat Strawberries with
pistols in my pocket" replied the other
in tho same calm tone he had usei
throughout. "Allow me to continue. Al
that school of which have spoken, and
in the society of men who have grown ou
OF it, and others where the same habit o.
thought prevails, it would be considered
that man who had been guilty of such
cowardice and knavery as L have mention
ed, would be justly punished if, some day
he should be paid in his own coin by
meeting some one who would take him a,
the same disadvantage as he placed tha,
poor boy att
sour seconds shall fix your own weap-
ons, Monsieur" said the count; ''let this
farce end.''
"Preseutly. Those gentlemen whose
opinions now venture to express, not
having that craze for blood which distiu-
guishes some-who have not bad simila,
enlightened education-will probably
think that such a coward and knave as we
have been considering would best meet his
deserts by receiving humiliaring casti-
CATION befi1ting his knavery and coward
ice."
"Ah l see; have lawyer to deal
with" sneered the count.
"Yes. have studied a little law, but
l regret to say that am about to break
one of its provisions"
"You will fight me then?''
''Yes. At the school we have been
speaking of, learned, among other things
the use of my bands and, if l mistake not,
l am about to give you as sound q thresh-
ing as any bully ever got"
''You would take advantage of your
skill in the box" said the count, getting
little pale.
Exactly. just as you took advantage
OF your skill in the small sword with poor
young B."
"Eut it is degrading-brutalI'
"My dear Monsieur, just consider. You
are four inches taller and some thirty or
forty kilogrammes heavier than am.
have seldom seen so fine an outside. If
you were to hit me good swinging blow,
it would go hard with me. In the same
way, if poor young B had got over
your guard it would have gone hard with
you. Eut then, I shall only blacken both
your eyes, and perhaps deprive you of a
tooth or SO, unhappily in front; whereas
you killed him.
IL will not accept the barbarous en-
"You must; I have done talking.
Would you like little brandy before we
begin? No? Place yourself on guard
then, if you please. When I have done
with you, and yeu are fit to appear, then
you shall have your revenge,-even with
the small sword, if you please. At pres
ent, bully-coward,-knave, take that,
aud that, and that!''
And the very little Anglo-Frank was
as good as his word. In less time than it
takes to write it, the great braggart was
rendered unpresentable for many lcng
day. That number one caused him to see
fifty suns beaming in the armament with
his right eye that number two presented
a similar phenomenon with his left that
number three obliged him to swallow
front tooth, and to observe the ceiling
more attentively than he had hitherto
done. And when one or two other that's
had completely cowed him, and he threw
open the window and called for help, the
strawberry-eater took him by the neck
another and lower part-and
flung him out Of it on to the fower,bed
below.
The strawberry-eater remained a month
ut Bordeaux to fulfil his promise of giving
the count bis revenge. But then, again,
the bully met with more than his match.
The strawberry-eater had Angelo for a
master as well as Owen Swift, and, after
q few passes, the count. who was too eager
to kill his man, felt an unpleasant sensa-
ton in his right shoulder. The seconds
and there was an cad of the
affair. Il was his last duel. Some one
produced a sketch of him as he appeared
being thrown out of the hotel window,
and ridicule-so awful to Frcnchman-
rid the country of him. The strawberry
eater was alive when the battle of the
Alma was fought, and is the only man to
whom the above facts are known who
never talks about them.
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