The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-27
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FOUNDER 70 and he thumped the table.
upsetting the glasses, and glared
down on Boyle, sure that he had
frustrated him, I bet, and no mistake
nuther, as our nasal friend observed
under his breath.
"But he lost his bet, for, bold as
Mars or Baron Munchausen, Boyle i'm
mediately exclaimed, s'Jingo! you
don't say so! thought you had about
as much real courage as one could put
in a homeopathic pill. Come out now,
my fine cock.of.the-walk, and give us
a touch of your quality?''
'Wa'al Lawful sakes!' calculated
the Colonel; you can't fight at night {!
What a mystical idee!'
/" oh yes, you can. Nonsense I'll
manage it. Well take two lanterns.
stand back to back, then each walk
away twenty PAGES, wheel round, and
fire.
8: 'Darned if do! Amt a-going to
be ding-donged into STAN in up like a
consumed fool in dark night. You
jess wait till to.morrer.'
"'Or the fifty-third week of this
year. No, sir!' Numbered BOYLE,
stamping his foot, which, like Mother
Carey's chickens, was the sure precur-
sor of a storm,-'no, sir You shall
fight now !! I should never have taken
the slightest notice of you if I had not
beer told of your cowardly bullying of
women and little children. DOM
stand incoming there! In one minute
more l shall box your large ears, and
then flap you over the head with this
horsewhip;' and he seized one stand.
ing in the corner.
The world did not appear to 20 upon
double.jointed casters just then with
George Washington Kosciusko, and the
rest. His little angry eyes went blink
ing round the room, he teetered up
and down on his heels and toes, he
moistened his dry lips with his tongue,
and his hands worked more nervously
than ever, as he detected look of
scornful, half-surprised derision on
the faces Of some Of the Jerseymen.
But glance at his challenger's deter.
mined visage showed him that there
was no deliverance to be hoped for,
and he shuffied out of the room, fol.
lowed by Boyle and the rest of US, who
did not mean to lose sight of him. We
obtained two old muskets, and we'll
knowing that our man would take sure
aim and fire, whatever the other did,
we loaded them only with powder,
communicating this little ruse to no
one. for Boyle would have fought us
all in turn if he had discovered it.
"Out we went into the dark and
lonely road. In solemn silence we
placed the combatants back to back,
George Washington, etc., having pom
derous, frightened signs enough to
have driven sloop from it's mornings.
We gave them each lighted lantern,
and with an emphatic one, two, three,
they started on their twenty PAGES. We
all counted, and at the twentieth loudly
called ''Stop!''
Boyle wheeled round, as we could
just discern by the dim light of his
lantern, but George Washington Kos
ciusko Peter Bonaparte Solomon Job
Slimcum kept on walking.
'Halloo!'' cried Boyle, ''haven't you
got twenty PAGES yet?''
"No answer but the walking, as we
could see by the swinging of the Ian
tern, had turned into prodigious
strides. The next moment the light
was extinguished.
'Halloo!'' shouted Boyle again.
''Stop, you villain-stop! Yah! whir-
roo! You scoundrel! you miserable
landlub-''
''Bang! went his gun. and we all
made a simultaneous rush down the
road but, like snowflake in the riv-
er, George Washington, etc., had
'evanished'; and from that day to
this be was never more seen in Shrews-
bury.
The story was told amidst shouts
and screams Of laughter from the of.
ficers and us women, and if that fire.
eater, little Boyle, ever sees the &C.
count of his duel, know that he and
Admiral Porter will forgive me for
telling it again.
Antiquity OF the Tomato.
Science Gossip, an English journal,
in the relation to the time which has
elapsed since the tomato was cultivat.
ed in gardens, states that Galen, who
lived in the second century, uses the
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