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Show HIS ONLY DUEL. No sob j set could be mentioned on which Uncle Eraatue had not something to say, and in many matters he had a large experience. "No, sah. I don't approve ob duels," he said to one of the summer residents who delighted de-lighted in hearing bis talk. "Oh. yas, sah I's fought a duel once. i.Yas, sab, wid a trifling valler man. about a gal. Yas, sah, we war bound to marry da same one. "We fought dat duel out in de road, sah, in a lonely spot, an' we didn't experience no shots on de puston, either ob us, but we brought down a fine cow, sah, dat was watching watch-ing de affair from a medder ovah de fence. "80, 'Gustos be paid fo' de cow, sah, an' he done tuk de ral, an' I'se stsyed single sn' kep' cl'ar ob duels de rest ob my life." Youth's Companion. |