Show IRELAND OF OTHER TIMES the th palmy days day of darling hard drink lap ing run fun and jollification never was such a time of feasting and jollification as the palmy days of the irish parliament says all the year round bound the county elections were a continued scene of fighting fun and revelry it is ia one continuous donn donnybrook Y fair and the county elector with a good coat on his back and money clinking in his pocket steps into a tent just to spend hall half a crown steps outs out meets a friend and ana for joy knocks him down with his garig of and ana shani rock so greeni green I 1 with the same gayety gaiety of heart the gentlemen fought their battles with more deadly weapons at that time dueling was a recognized part of the social code the thirty six commandments arranged by a gentleman of galway formed a complete set of rules on all the punctilious punctilios illos of the duello according to the printed rules of galway seconds if desirous des k arous may ay exchange shots at right angles to their principals principal s a and nd lest the gentlemen should have forgotten their mathematics em aties there is ia a diagram to explain how this right angled fire is arranged the pistol was a national weapon the long heavy dueling pistol which was handed to the principal by his second the flints hammered and the feather spring set some irish gentlemen who had served in france tried to sub bub statute the small sword tor for the pistol and a dueling club was formed in ia dublin I 1 I 1 la a most agreeable and useful association the members of which st alel themselves the knights of tara 1 and who strove by practice in the fencing school and on the field of i honor to bring the rapier into fashion again but their practices were denounced as frivolous by the regular blazers and national habits habata were too strong for the innovators well hit but no lives lost was the bulletin bullet in most hoped for far on the conclusion of a duel for the kindly irish nature recoiled from froin occasioning the death of a neighbor and perhaps a friend but wounds were glorious and none could doubt the honor of one who had been winged on such an occasion |