The daily Alaskan., 1914-09-23
Modem
 ChivaIry
By DONALD CHIAMBERLIN

the age of chivalry. Her father and could hear her, and while she reaC how Sir Somebody charged upon Si Somebody Else in a contest for tht Lady Whats-her-name l noticed tha the farmers eye lit up, and he seemed to be rapt in reminiscence.
 "They don't do sich things now that away" he said when the story was finished, but it's jist as nateral fol men to fight for women today as il was then. But they're giniraIly young fellers, and the gals is young too. ] had a scrap like that when l was a younker. hearn one day that there was to be a dance in barn six or seven miles down the road. After sup per started to walk 1t"
 What" l interrupted, walk seven miles, dance all the evening and walk seven miles back"
 "Oh, l didn't mind a little thing like that then! was young and tough. I needed to keep my muscles active; there was so much vim in 'em. When l got to the barn some liddlers was putin some boards on barrels to make music for the people to dance. While they was tunin' up the dancers was comin' in.
 ''Purty soon they began to dance, but didn't know any O the gals, and was afeared to ask 'em to dance with me. After awhile a black eyed gal, seein' that l was left out in the cold, said to me, smilin, Why don't you dancer and l says, Cause I don't know nobody to dance with And she says, Won't I doT And I says, You bet put my arm around her waist, and We spun around that barn floor like a fywheel of a cuttin' machine with the beltin' off.
 "When the music stopped we went off into a dark corner and set till it com menced ag'in. aXed the gal if she would dance with me some more, and she said she didn't mind. We was gittin' up to start off when a feller came up and said the gal was engaged to him for that dance. She said she didn't remember any engagement with him, so put my arm around her, and we sailed away.
 "Not wishin' to take up the hull of her time, when the dance was over told her would go and get a cup O water-jist for an excuse, you know though I would have liked to stay with her the rest of the evenin'. ] hadn't gone far before the feller that said the gal was engaged to dance with him come up to me, and he said, says he:
 "'See here, mister, if you want to monopolize the belle O this yere coun- ty you got to fight for heH'
 CT don't want to monopoize any one,' says l, Ieastways any one that don't want to be monopolized, but l don't want none O your sass.
 "That want exactly like Sir Some thing or Other in the story would put it, but meant jist what be diG. The feller didn't throw down his mailed glove, neither. but he was sp'iIin' for a fight. and first thing I knowec ne give me a jaw breaker. Then some of the managers O the ball that was standin' by iuterfered and said we couldn't fight there; we must go out side. So we went out, and all the men follered US. The gals, fndin' their selves without the men. thort they might as well see the fun, and they come out too. :,
 "The moon was full that night ana shone like a big round silver dollar The feller I was to fght-they called him Buck-was six feet high to my Ave feet eight. If the gal he was to fight for was the belle O the county he was the bully. He'd licked every man he could get to fight him just as that Sir What-d'ye-call-him in the story hau vanoulshed all the other knights. l wasn't so big as he was, but was all fired tough. My arms was like wild cats fore legs. When l seen the gals ratherin' around looked for the one that the fight was about saw her standin' with her face squared to the moon. and she give me a smile that put enough vim in me to tackle grizzly.
 q couldn't give you much of an ac- count of the fight cause it was twen' ty-fye years ago and a rough and tum- ble scrap anyway. Didn't neither or us know how to box, and we Just slammed at each other like two wind mills whose wings had got mixed from bein' too close together Onct in awhile when I felt discouraged under sledge- hammer blow the feller got in on me I'd look for a smile from the girl. She'd give me one, and I'd start in ag'in purity nigh as fresh as ever.
 "The big feller was more ponderous- like than me, but he didn't have my steel muscles, and he didn't have my wind. After awhile he began to breathe kind O hard, and at last he was hlttin' wild. I was as fresh as aver and when l saw he was giVin' ont list waited awhile till he got well tuckered, then landed a blow on his jaw that sent him sprawlin' on the dirt.
 "Just then a rooster tux it into his head to crow in the middle O the night, and everybody larfed. We went ct