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 soual satisfaction can cnly say'that he is the fast man that was not satis- fled with squoezju my hand. If this shauld not answer, there is ono thing more 1 would do rather than get a lick in. have all along expected t1 die widow but as M. $ is rather good iookia than otherwise 1 must say don care if we compromise the matter really Mir. Printer l can't help blushin- Tit must come out-I- butNic medesty-well, f l must, l must-etouldn' ho--laayBe sorter let the old gradse daap if I was to consent to be-be-Itis w-i-f-c2 l know he's figh5n man and would rather fight than eat, but isl marvin better than iightin though it sometimes runs into 1t? And l don think upon the whole that I'd be sich bad match neither I'm not over 60 and am just l feet in my baro feet and not much moro round the eirth, sad fer e9l0r [ wouldn't turn my back to nary girl in Lost township But after all maybe I'm countin my chickens before they're matched and drcamin of matrimonial bliss when tho only alternative reserved for mo Is lickin. Jeff tells mo the way these fro eaters do is to give the challenged parry choice of weapons, etc, which bein the easo I'll tell you i'll confidence that l never fights with anything but broom sticks CT hot water or a shovelful eff co3lS or some such thing the former of which, bein somewhat Iiko ehlllalah, may not he objectionable to him. I will give him choice, however, in one thing. and that is whether when we fight shall wear brooches or he petticoats. D
 Of course these lo@tcrs threw the gal ] iant gentleman from Tyrone into Q state of wrath. His pride and, IS ho cou- eeived it, his homer having beon as sailed, it is not strange he felt Iiko sniffing blood Even a less sensitive { man would lave bcea more CT less aroused. Meanwhile under the name of 1 Cathleen tho marriage of Bebecca Shields was celebrated in rhyme in the l columns of The Journal More the mad | dened auditor of state could not endure. and, hunting up Francis, the editor ef | tfe paper, he demanded tho name of the ! author. Although the letters and poetry 1 were the joint work of Lincoln, Mary | Todd and Jalia Jayne, yet Mir. Lincoln | assumed all the authorship and the challenge to fight speedily followed. l At the time Shields determined to | press Lincoln for amends or fight. " re- 1 lated Judge Matheny to me several wears atfbp fa s Fremont, in Tazewell county, attending court The hot headed and impetuous | irishman and his baclers had hired wagon and started ever the prairies to | iind Lincoln and commence with him the edrrl spandonce of tho code when | Judge Logan, who was Lincoln's law | partner at that time, rushed into my of | flee aud III good deal of excitement communicated to mo what he had | learned of the Shields crowd and their | mission. Gto tiUWn to Bec1's stable. '
 he said, "ard tell them to give you their sviftest horse Then distance those fellows before they reach Lincoln i and get him into trap, even if you shave to drive tho horse to death. ; I isot into buggy and struck out for the aorth. By d.gsl had caught up with 9he Shields party and by lying down m my vehicle so that l could not be seon and driving around them sue eeeoed IT. reaching 8 point ahead in the roae without in the least awakening sheia' suspicious. reached Fremont early m the morning and was the first to appsise Lincoln Of what was i'll store for him
 At first he was disnosed to treat the