The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-28

when the third and last son CHALLENGED.
We had it out then and there with the
same weapons touched me twice.
but I fieshed the steel in his left side
and gave him a sore rib to coddle up.
You may be prepared to hear, sun
you may be prepared TO hear that ny
wife objected to her Whole family being
laid up at once. even by her husband,
and this was her sole reason for depart
ing for the FAMILY rOOf-tree and leaving
me alone Under the circumstances
could offer no valid objection, but a
week had not gone by when two broth-
ers-in-law arrived TO throw down the
gantlet- had to fight them or run
away. The first affair was with pistols
the second with rapiers. IN both Of
them I wounded my man and come or
scot free There was the motber-iI-
law left, but fortunately she did not
challenge. All ended we'll however. Nv
wife returned to me, the six relatives
apolegfzed as fast as they got wen. ana
there has not been a shadow Of trouble
over the family since.
Il may mention among other TRIES
leading to duets, resumed the CoI-
disposed of. "one that occurred to me
about u year befo' the wah. While
walking or the streets of my native
town the laces Of one OF my shoes be-
came united. &c so happened that I
halted in front OF a grocery kept by a
I zee Negro 10 MAKE d new htlOls Just
at that moment Kurnel Knox came
along. The Kurnel was a great stick
Ter for etiquette, and he raised two
points against me-one for stopping m
front Of a grocery conducted by col
ored Terson, and the other for failing
to assume a graceful pose while doing
the tIeing. I resented his criticisms,
and he called me an ass. I challenged
! him, and he named his seconds. We
used pistols to settle the matter, and I
received @ ball in my side. The Kur-
mel got one in the groin, however, and
was lame to the last day Of his life.
Again, one afternoon when I was
sitting on the veranda Of the Ponson-
4 by house with Kurnel Horton and
4 when we seemed to have drawn closer
/ than usual together, the KurneI got
/ OF that old query as to whether the
/ hen or the egg came first The argu-
ment soon passed into heated discus
! sion, and from that to acrimony, and
the gentleman finally blazed out with.
kurnel Bunker, you are talking
| like a boy five years oldi'
" sRut I can handle a rapier or piss
/ tol like a man Of forty I replied
Then make it as sunrise tomorrow
mawning, and will see that you are
httingly inferred afterwards
Why not make it an hour hence
have only to send to the house for
ms. pistols
The sooner the better
''HSo seconds had been sent. We
called to a couple of acquaintance on
the street, and forty minutes after the
challenge had been given we were on
the field and ready to fire at the word
I got the Kurnels bullet in the shout
der, and he got mine in the leg, and
befo' the public had heard of the due
we had both been carried home. Nexi
day the Kurnel and were exchanging
pacific notes, honah having been sat
isfied, and as soon as we could craw
out we visited back and 10th. We
were the best of friends up to the
day of his death, and the query Of tht
hen and the egg never came up to pro.
woke US again." Copyright, 1906, bs
c. H Sutcliffe.)