Emery County Progress | 1909-06-05 | Page 1 | His an Amusing Autograph

HIS AN AMUSING AUTOGRAPH clyde F values that of brecken dge an jur st in clyde fitch s large collection ot autographs luto graphs is none that he values more than letter of the eccel trie and b illiana jurist II 11 H bieck enridge on dueling a auth at the time replied to the challenge of a british officer with this amusing lettel he I 1 have two objections to ahn jel matter ohe is lest I 1 houll 1 ou the other is et should hurt me I 1 don t see what good it would do me to p it a ball through your body I 1 could make no use of ou dead tor any culinary purposes as I 1 would a rabbit or I 1 am no cannibal to feed upon the flesh of men why then shoot down a human creature of whom I 1 can n ake no A wo lid be better you make a good barbecue it is true I 1 ing of the nature of a raccoon or opossum but people are not in the 1 of barbecuing any thing that is human now rd as to your hida it is not worth biking off being little better than a twoie arold colts As to self 1 do not like to stand in the way of anything that as I 1 un under the impression that ou m hit i e this being the case I 1 think it e to in the distance if ou mean to try our pistol tal e objects a tree 01 a barn doo about ny if ou hit that send me word and I 1 will ac inov ledge that if I 1 had been in the same alce ou might alo have hit u