Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-09-21

| hHu MY n1AiO 10 UeOISe WISH
ington Kosciusko Peter Bonapartt
Soloman Job Slimcum, and youc
better mind what you're about
"'I will, thank you. I understand
that you are pretty considerable of a
fellow t@ f.,f-'
Sir, you air a ruther free an easy
sort OF cuss; ruther too forrard.'
~'Yes, oh, yes. / might be as stiff
as the North Pole, or as distant as
as two mill-stones; but then you
know, the other is my way sir
Wa'al, sir, don't like your way
"No? How queerl Well, 1 won't
be disobliging, and I give you per-
mission to lump it, then
Sir, you sir-you are sossg.
You'd better curb them propensi.
tttdes OF yourn.
"Just so. You have a propensi.
t,ade, understand, to consider your
self a great man. U,
"' Sir, you are impertinent-' e.
stake care, siri' shouted Boyle.
won't stand any insult t'ns.N -een
"'Shol Whatll you do?' oV
"Do2 I'll fight you; I'll blow you
60 the other end of nowhere ~ 2
".Hol hol Kin you fightY sneered
the giant, now on his feet, rocking
back and forth, his guant, bony hands
opening and shutting as il they were
in contact with an electrical battery.
Hol hol you'd better be keerful, you
had ] kin cut cent in half. kim
"Ho! no! laughed Boyle. initiating
the bully. Pm sufferin' turrible to
see you do it. I'd ruther have a
shot than sugar-plum from such a
fire-eater as YOU 'or ~
Wa'al, sir, I've got a material tack
with fire arms; kin fight with any
thin from a cambric needle to a
42-pounder' 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
Immediately exclaimed, 'Jingoi you
don't say sol / thought you had
about as much real courage as one
could put in homeopathic pill.
Come out, now, my fine cock-of the.
walk, and give us touch of your
qualityY D ~ qsH ~ 81. r.
Wa'all Lawful sakesl" calculated
the Colonel; you can't fight at night
What hyastical ideeT IS
-sOh 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.
90 Darned il do. Amt a-goin' to
be dingdonged into stan'in up like a
consumed fool in q dark night. You
jess wait till to-morrer.' lls gfe,
"'Or the fifty-third week of this
year. No, sirpol Numbered Boyle.
stamping his foot, which, like Mother
Carey's chickens. was the sare precur-l
sor of storm no, sirl You shall
fight ssoUl i should never have taken
the slightest notice of you il / had
not been told OF your cowardly bully
ing OF women and little children.
Don't stand incoming therel In one
minute more / shall box your large
ears. and then flap you overthe head
with this horse-whip:' and he, seized
one standing in the corner.W soI
d -.The world did not appear to go
upon double -j0inted casters just then
with George Washington Kosciusko.
and the rest. His little angry eyes
went blinking round che room, teet-
cred up and down on his heels and
toes, he mcistened his dry lips with
his tongue, and his hands worked
more nervously than ever, as he
detected look of scornful, half-sur-
prised derision on the faces OF some
or the Jerseymen. Buta glance at
his challenger's determined visage
showed bin that there was deliver
ance to be hoped for. and he shuffied.
out of the room, followed by Boyle
and the rest OF us, who did not mean
to lose sight OF him. We obtained
two old muskets, and weli-knowing
that our man would take sure aim
and fire, whatever the, other did, we
loaded them only with powder, com
municating this little rtlse 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., heaving
ponderous, frightened sighs enough
to have driven a sloop from its moor.
ings. We gave them each lighted
lantern, and with an emphatic one,
two. threel they started on their
twenty PAGES. We all counted.
and at the twentieth loudly called,
'Stopp ila naa af'F -fof
Z "' 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. - Il "a
-' HaiIop cried Boyle; haven't you,
got twenty PAGES YETI iea 81
{ "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. .sl.-pd 80
Hallop shouted Boyle again.
Stop, you villian-stopl Yahl whir-
rool You scoundrell You miserable
landlub-'sil uug tafW booilgs fss'
a~Bangl went his gun and we all
made simultaneous rush down the
road; but, like a snow flake in the
river George Washington. etc.. had
vanished;' and from tsiut day to this,
he was never m 1re seen In ShreMs-