Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-03-06
AN INCIDENT OF TRAVEL
How Another Battle of the Boyre
Was Narrowly Averted

| 1t is sometimes a mighty g0oc
thlng to speah when in a fight" SAID
Henry c. Stuart, the big member ol
the convention rom Russell county
talking to a group of members in the
omc1 OF Secretary Button one after
noon last week. And then everybOdy
knew there was a story coming. Sc
John Burger emptied a scuttle OF Goa
on the CRATE, Judge Ingram got down
! deeper into his chair, Hooker got his
1eet IN the fender and the Dispatch
mar prlckei up his ears. tor Mr..
Stuart can tell good story when re
sets his mind to it. Besides. it was
! just the kind of day when a story
told while sitting before a hot fire,
sounds hotter than at any other. for
| the sleet was beating against the
window and the world was covered
with snow. 1T was a dozen or more
years ago. Mr.. Stuart began. blow.
ing long Whit from his Havana. Il
was travelling in Ireland, in company
with two young men who were
strangers to me. One of them was a
young physician, who was the sur
GeOn on a transatlantic liner. and
who had been on visit to his homo
somewhere in Ireland. The other
was a young fellow who appeared t.
/ be one OF the landed gentry returning
! from hunting trip. He carried n
shot gun and wore a hunting costume.
Shortly after he entered the com
partment we crossed a river. Il beau
| tiful stream, the name Of which did
not know. | began conversation
with him for the purpose of leading
up TO a question as to the name Of
the river. ! asked him if he had had
a good days sport.
Not much sport he replied
there is not much game on the Byne
now
4 could not understand what he
meant by Byne.' I was sure I had
| never heard the name. so [ asked
him to repeat what he had said. He
did so, somewhat angriIy.
How do you spell ito l asked
him. I never heard of the Byne.'
Then Won had better go home
and read history he said. and it did
not need his words to show he was
thoroughly angry.
We'll. you know. was not going
to take anything like that: one word
led to another, and finally he haJt
raised his gun and exclaimed that he
could blow my head off.
L carried a heavy stick, which I
grasped firmly in my right hand.
while I threw up the muzzle of the
gun with my left. / was going to
paralyze him with a blow on the
head for | saw there was good
opening, and | was mad ! had been
very polite to the man, and there was
no reason for his anger that | could
see.
You are not fooling with any
Englishman now said 4 am an
American, and I'll show you
But I did not complete the SEN
tence. The young man at once
ceased to struggle and began AL
apology.
I beg a thousand pardons, he
said I thought you were an English
man
Then there were many more
apologies, and I helped all | could 10
smooth matters over for saw he was
nice fellow and that the trouble
was all the result of a misunderstood
/ ing. He told me how Englishmen
coming to Ireland had frequently
! crOwed over the Irish because OF the
victory Of the BOyne. and that he had
made up his mind he would not stand
| it if anything of the kind were evef
said to him. He was sure | was al
Englishman and that | was only try.
ing to guy him. He was a fine fellow
and l was greatly tempted to &C,
cept his invitation to spend a teY
days with him at his country place
! which was not far away.-Richmond
| Dispatch.