The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-07-22
SeIeeteb MiseeIIanp.
BILLY kIRWAN'S AFFAIR OF
HONOR.

This capital and very Milesian story
from "a Few More Old Dublin Recollec-
tions:"
Few affairs of honor have been surpassed
in real Irish fun by the one which took
place in Dublin, in which the celebrated
fire eater and champion of the Dublin cor
poration, D'Esterre, afterward shot by
O'Connell, came out in "a new way to pay
old debts" and had his overstrained no
tions of chivalry turned into successful
ridicule by an honest plain dealing mans
mother and common sense. D. Esterre
used to put bis name to paper without
thought of payment. One day Billy Kir-
wan, a well-knoWn bill broker, was offered
IA bundle of bills for discount. 1t was Mr.
Kirwan's boast that he instinctively knew
bad paper" By the feel of it.
"There's bad 'papes' IN your lott can
perceive, Sir, without taking the trouble TO
look over it sue-ah-tim ct Hterah-tim",
remarked Billy, who had been originally
intended by his pious Galway parents for
the church, and had in his boyhood u
decent converse with the preiminaries of
the classics. Faenun, hd6et IN coTRu," he
continued, "as body midht say to spa
vined horse. You had better remove it, if
you playse, Sir, before have anything to
say to you, for | wouldn't touch it with a
pair of kitchen tongs, much less dirty my
hands with it,"
Il am astouished to hear you say so, Sir,
said the merchnat; "and would you be
pleased to mention what it is in my hand
that encounters your objection?"
"WhY, certain acceptance signed II.
D'Esterre, and if you must know my cpin-
ion, 1 would not advance the value of a
brass button on all that a jackass could
draw on the same security"
"Good Heavens! and why not?"
"For rayson have; and nobody knows
it better than Mr.. D Esterre himself" ans
wered Krwan.
AS Mr.. Kirwan was sitting alone after
dinner the same evening, enjoying his pipe
and his glass of punch ever one of Nj G ee S
late leaders in the Euening Post, or, just as
probable, one of Dan O'Conneirs earlier
speeches in favor Of Cotholic emancipation
the servant came in with card from Colo
mel Henry.
"Who's Colenel Henry?" demanded
Kirwan.
"Faith, and it's meself doesn't know him
from the man in the moon"
"Rowl in the Colonel and lay another
tumbler!'' said the master of the house.
Colonel Henry, tall and gentlemanly
looking man of middle age, was ushered
in.
"Mighty glad l am to see you, colonel
whatever you've come about" said our host
''but before you begin would advise yor
to mix a tumbler of that excellent Johans
PoUer that's forenent you. If you take i
off at onoe. it will pull your through the
opening part of your business pleasant,
and comfortably; and then you can mix
second at once to prepare you for contin-
gencies.
Col. Henry, having taken Kirxan's ad
vice so far as mixing, but not suddenly alb
sorbing, the liquor, opened his busines
with all the grandeur of a perfect Sir Lu
cius, as in days long gone by Jack John
son used to enact the part, not Tyron
/ Power.
The colonel very much regretted that
fell to his lcs to have to deliver hostil
message to a gentlemen of such respecta
bility as Mr.. kirwan from one equally re
spectacle and estinable as Dir. D Esterrs
He repeated the injurious and insulting e1
rresssions which the gentleman whom b
had the honor of addressing bad made us
of in speaking of his friend during the da
to certain merchant in the commerci,
building, and which had travelled the rcun
of the city before night-fa He pointe
out, moreover the utter impossibility
Mr.. D'Esterre allowing such an outrage 0
his name and character to be uttered an
sent firth tO the world without demandin
the satisfaction of gentleman.
"Then, colonel, honey, come to ii
point, and just tell me what it is that yo
., want" demanded KHwan.
. "An apology or the alternative"
(Which means that must eat my wort
or hghs?''