Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-05-26

t ItSGIAlAE 4aol IRA hIitESf fOfstfAl8 ItWitH r5sf 4,.4 aqc BEARD. ...sf:f5f6r,,f ,v a IBy permission 5. 5, MeClare.L | sopql satisfaction I can only say that he is the fust man that was net satisz fled with squeezin my hand. If this, should not auswer, there is one thing more I would do rather than get a lick in haYe all along expected to die a widow, but as Mir s, is rather good lookin than otherwise I must say l don t care if we compromise the matter
 really MT Printer, I can't help blushiu--5 it Lit must come 3eut44-T--. but Wid zt modesty if l must, l must---n 9dldn t, he--.maybe gorter let the old grQdge drap if l was to consent l to be-be-his wife? 1 know he's 1 ightin man and would rather fight than eat, but ism [ marvin better than fghtin, though it sometimes runs into it2 And l don't think, upon the whole, that I'd be sich q bad match neither n not over 50 and am just 1 feet i'll my bare feet and not much more round the glGth, and for color l wouldn t turn my back to nary girl in Lost township.
 
 f chickens before they re matched and dteainin of matrimonial bliss when the only alternative reserved for me is a lifkih, Jef tells me the way these fire caters do is to give the challenged party choice of weapons etc, which bein the case I'll tell you ip confidence that l never fights with anything but broom Sticks or hot water or shoyelful of eoals or some such thing, the former of which, bein somewhat ike a ehilIalah, may not be objectionable to him. will give him choice, however, in one thing. and that IS whether when we fight l shall wear brooches or he pettieoats :" :.
 ."Of couIs6 these letters lthf,e5y the pal. lant gentleman from Tyrone into a state of wrath. His pride and, as he con ceiYed it, his honor having been as sailed, 1t IS not strange he felt like smiling bleed, Eyea less sensitive man would have Leen more or less aroused. Meanwhile under the name of Cathleen the marriage of Rebecca Shields was celebrated in rhyme in the columns of4Fhe Journal. More the mad. l dehed auditor Of statecould not. endure and, hunting up Francis, the editor of the paper he demanded the name of the author Although the letters and poetrv were the joint work of Lincoln. Mary Todd and Julia Jayne yet MT. Lincoln assumed all the authorship and the ehallenge to fight speedily. followed l
 At the time Shields determined to press Lincoln for amends or fight. re- l lated Judge Matheny to me several years ago, the latter was ill the town ot I 1remont, ill Tazewell county attendino court The hot headed and imDetuous lfIshman and his packers had hired | wagon and started over the prairles to 1 ma Lincoln and commence with him | tha correspondence of the code. when Judge Logan, who was Lincoln's law f partner at that time rushed into my oP. nee and ii q good deal of exeitenanf ! communicated to me what be;l had learned of the Shields crowd and their mission Go down to Beck's stable II Alief Ae said, and tell them to give von lAelr sWlfteSt horse Then distance | those nose fellows before they reach Linooln and ana get him into a trap even if 1 yop nav, nave to drive the horse to death 6 II eot 1hto a buggy aud struck out for tba north nor, By dusk I had caught up with ehe ohlelds party, aud by lying down ID my vehicle so that could not ha ssfa an9 driving around them l suc. e9e9ed .'55 HI 6iq reaching . point ahead in tn. t2aa tl Without in, the least awakening en'l saelr ,SqsPlelons.ti l reached Fremont carry lfllthe morning and was tbeIfirs,ds for hin.s fi,.l,al ~ .i''' was Ill store
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