Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-01-25
A DUTCH DUEL.
BY MARK QUENCHNER.

Id was loafy nighd. On accound id
vas dark, der gasses vas lighded in der
spacious abardments of Mamsame
81 mid)'s barlors. In Won of der mosd
spaciousdest blaces in dot barlor, vas
lady talking mid herself like dis:
"Boody soon Chakey Sullivan come
md ask me my hands in marriage. I
don'd like dod beard word cent. But
fund here she blushed up herself)
like bedder do seen Nigel Schneider
l loaf him awful"
Vile she is saying dot, you can hafe
blaindy dime to do been exprised at
at her eggshorbidant beauty.
She had nice comblexion like de
doose, und her couble of eyes had a,
brighd color, not unlike the bellue-
(I can'd schbell dot word)-exbres@
sion OF der heavenly heavenly ga
zelle.
(I wonder is dot righd.)
She vas dressed widout some regard
to EXPENSE $50 are rag bickers, but I
don'd mean like dot).
Boody soon comes q knock ad de
door.
She shivers herself and says mid
faindness:
"Shdeb oud in"
A man righd away shdebs oud in
Dots Chakey Sullivan.
He vas dressed in eggstremely goot
clothes. He says like dis:
"Oh, Loweesar 1 loaf you like
soabi Vii you, loaf me like soab, too =?
Oh! vad you dinks aboud it, my mosd
darling?''
Und she draws up herself ub, and
says:
s'vad 1 dinks aboud id, eli? w, I
dinks me dot you are a nod good for
someding, insulding, cheegy beebles,
und please to got yourself out right
sway"
He god himself much bale mid mad
GO ahead oud, vii your" said
She
mo, madomissle, no, sir; vooned
go oud, l." said be, mid rage in his
eyes. 81 go me oud ven I blease me,
and nod alder"
'All righd, sir; den call my fad
der dot he will boosd you eud," said
she.
Und she dakes him his oad dot, my
ketens, she YOU'D so dot, and she runs
! herself to der vinder, bud he shdicks
him oud his feeds, und she is clumsey
und dumbles ofer dem, und hids her
schnood on der Ground, und he schust
says:
''Ah! oh! didn't I say so you
Yoodn't ?''
Und mid dis insulding brobasiskion
he holes ub her head und gifts her a
couble of lunches in der moud ,und he
is choost aboud to kig her ear, ven a
feller chumbs on Chal1ey's back, und
mosed choges out his deeth oud Dot
feller vas Loweesar's drue loaf, Mygel
| Schneider.
Loweesar hollers:
"Oh Nigel blease gif Chakey a muir
der, or cad off his eye off leedle on
cound he vas SO ruff to me-"
Uud Nigel says:
Dots so; ids better ven do it
righd away"
So he dakes off his coat, und pegin
to crop his hear, so dot he can fighd
better, but Chakey says:
"Blese shdop your DECLARATIONS. 1
excuse you dot you fighd nit me. l
tl>..'1 lil-e- -s,soh dings been q gen
tleman. Blese hold up your hosses ND
accommodate you mid a duel. Dos
is my card"
Und he schucked his card in My
gels eye,
Nigel shuckcd his de same way,
saying:
"AIl righd, do-morrow morning ad
de broke OBJ day. Bistols and bid
ders for a cubble. Adieu"
''Adieu YOURSELF" said Chakey, und
dey parded to seeg deir reshpecdive
gouches, und berchance, to dream do
morrow's enormous CRIME, und der IA
naticalness of mans uncomfortable
passions against der holy laws, or
dained Il better shdop me here, on ac-
cound venefer ride dot, always get
shduck,)
Next morning before the brighd Oal-
roarer (dot's de sun) had yet shielded
his refulgence rays on the erub-durn
id mean to say before de sun vas
ub-two paroles mighd hafe been saw
schooling along toward der dueling
Ground.
De order hardy got dere frsd,
Brebarations vas Immediately gom-
| ger-yes, sir; call it massager, for
vad else is id, ven dwo of natures own
noblemen viii, in cold blood, shdar-
veil, dots enough of dot,
We go on.
Der brincibals vas shdood ub, und
der seconds gif dem der bistols, vile
der thirds und der fourds vas fixing
der medicines.
Choosd as dey vas all ready, Chakey
said he must be been excused for mo-
mends.