Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-06-14
The Code Fully Explained.

From the Brooklyn Eagle
my DEAR" said Mrs. Spoopendyke, exa,nin-
ing the baby's feet critically to see if they were
both alike my dear, l see that one of the
strikers or capital. has been hurt; do you know
the facts about it?''
''How hurt? what did it say" asked Mr.
| SpoOpendyke, turning from the glass and strap
ping his razor.
Il don't remember exactly, but he went down
to slaughter-hOuse to get something for his
family, and somebody shot him in the legs
That's the way it happened. was it ?" de-
manded Mr. Spoopendyke, grinning through his
lather. 6 He didn't go to his family for pair
of legs and somebody shot him in the slaughter
house, did he? Nor he didn't go down to his
legs for a slaughter-hOuse and somebody shot
him in the family That wasn't the way it read.
was it ~
''No-o-o, think not replied Mrs Spoopen-
| dyke, obviously, lin sure it was something
about aslaughter-house andlegs Do you know
| how it happened 2?
Yes, know how it happened =" Knocked Mr.
| Spoopendyke. pegging away at his visage with
| the razor. ''If / hadn't found out away from
home I'd always been puzzled about it, though
Two gentlemen fought duel, and one got shot.
/ That's all there is in it,
81 knew thered be some trouble as soon as |
read about those strikes confidently continued
| Mrs SpOOpendyke.
What's the strike to do with it?'' vociferated
! Mr.. SpOOpendyke. "Think he struck for an
other shot? Got notion he struck for more
| legs. haven't ye? 1t would have been bad
idea, that?" sOlOquiZed Mr.. Spoopendyke.
rather impressed with the combined originality
and utility of that class of strike.
''Dd he get shot in both legs?" queried Mrs
| Sp0Opendyke. 1T must have been cannon
| ball, or else he held his legs in front of each
| other"
That's the way he did h." moaned Mr. Spoop-
endyke. They always do that. When they
are fighting duel they sit down like tailor or
| Turk. What dye think they fight with, forts?
Got some kind of a vague idea that they fight
| with line of battle ships? Who said anything
about cannon balls? Pistols / tell We, They
| fought with pistols, and one of them hit the
other! Roll that information around in your
] ten acre intelligencel'
Certainly" faltered Mrs Spoopendyke "But
| tell me, dear. why should one man shoot an
other for going to the slaughter house?"
Holy herring!" calculated Mr.. Spoopendyke
''He went there to get shot. 1t was agreed
upon. The man who shot him had reflected on
| bis honor and he went there to satisfy it,"
land did it satisfy his honor to shoot him in
the legs! asked Mrs. SpOOpendyke.
That was as near as he could get to it.
tell you that when man fights duel he wipes
out an insult, whether he gets shot in the legs
or the ear. 1t makes no difference"
II should think it would, murmured Mrs.
spoopendyke. 1T would to me. So his honor
| is all right now, is it?''
'Of course it is" replied Mr.. Spoopendyke.
wiping his face. Suppose you can reason on
the subject without any further information from
me?'
81 guess So" ruminated Mrs. Spoopendyke
las understand it, if a mans honor is hurt all
he's got TO do is get shot in the legs though
don't see why he didn't shoot himself unless it
was that he couldn't reach around.
That's just the reasOn!" roared Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke. ''He shot at himself in the looking glass
all the morning. and couldn't make it work. SO
he hired a man to do it for him! 1t took your
shot tower intellect to see into it! What you
want now is squint in one eye and some dod
gasted friends to interfere to be revised edi-
ton of the measly code. you only had some
body to chalk off six PAGES on you and squad
OF police with bench warrant. you'd be q reg
ular Bladensburg. I'm going out to fight a
duel and get shot! Think you'd understand it
then: If l had bullet through both legs,
would you want any more information?,
mo, dear" sighed Mrs. Spoopendyke, and as
her husband tossed his shaving brush into the
baby's crib and slammed out the door. she
began to think that man shouldn't keep his
honor in his legs if they couldn't take better