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Show HUMORISTS ON HONOR'S FIELD Witty Irishmen Meet to Fight, But Duel Has Altogether Happy Ending. A duel with a happy ending seems an anomaly, yet one is commemo- rated in Blackwood's Magazine, in an article on Irish "fire-eater." The duel, as arranged, was between John Egan, a county judge, and Roger Barett, master of the rolls. Both men were humorous, and the meeting, upon the fair ground of Donnybrook, was characteristic. char-acteristic. Upon the combatants taking their ground, Barett, who was the challenger, chal-lenger, promptly fired without waiting for the signal to be given, and then walked coolly away, calling -out: "Now, Egan, my honor is satisfied!" The judge, however, was by no meanscontented, and shouted: "Hallo! Stop, Roger, till I take a shot at your honor!" Barett thereupon came back, and, planting himself in his former station, sta-tion, said, composedly: "All right, then, fire away." Egan presented his pistol, and taking tak-ing most deliberate aim, first at one part of the master of the rolls' anatomy anat-omy and then at another, seemed determined de-termined to finish him outright. At last, however, he cried out: "I won't honor you! I won't be bothered shooting you! So now you may go your own way, or come and shake hands with me, whichever way you like best." Barett chose to shake hands, and amidst the plaudits of the crowd the antagonists departed from the field in much good humor, the best of friends. Youth's Companion. |