Show SUKE DEATH FOR BOTH display of Ite nerve lly ily a tenderfoot in lossing euln a Chall chalance nCe 1 I 1 once saw a challan chall cn e to a it duel duet issued Issue 11 and accepted and the time place and weapons named the affair however did not come to any tiny issue the speaker was dan quinn the well known writer of wild und woolly western character and dialect stories it was in deadwood 11 said he about eight years ago and tho the two men who were to have been the participants had been snarling at each other tor for many days one of them was a young consumptive looking fellow from somewhere east and of course was held in tn much contempt by the old timers in some indefinable way however many of them seemed to have lave a kind of respect tor for him as on one or two occasions be he had given evidence that perhaps after all be he was not to bo be laughed laug heil at he ire was to these there semi admirers an un known quantity and while they were all anxious for some opportunity to present itself in which he would show what he was made of yet not one of them cared to furnish the looked tor for chance the man who did the snarling waa was aci haps the only man in the select clique that hung around the saloon where the quarrel finally materialized who did not believe that the tenderfoot had any nerve and he never missed an opportunity to intimate as much on the night in question the two meil men had been annually spiteful and it was a cinch that there would be trouble before the daylight broke in tn finally the old timer made a remark to the other that there was no mistaking it meant business the young fellow heard it and without moving a hand announced to the other that he had heard tho the remark and that he had a proposition to make the crowd waa was in the right humor and the be boy waa was allowed to go on OIL he ile bald said that he was a tenderfoot he ue was aware of it he h declared and be he felt but he also said that if tha the other sorry would give him a fair show he would fight him thea he be mada what waa WAS considered t remar Kanie proposition I 1 ho re asked bla his antagonist to lay jay aside his gear to make no plays but to issue him a challenge to battle royal lie ile hod bad he be said conscientious scruples against being the aggressor la in a quarrel but ha he was perfectly willing to dobbe do the square thing when the showdown came well after much parley the big fellow agreed to tho the deal and the challenge was issued the boy at once accepted it named guns as the weapons the place the saloon and the time right then but his condition under which the tb duel due was to besought be fought was the remarkable part of it Ile insisted that he and his opponent should stand faco face to face with the toes of their right boots touching their guns were to be in their belta belts and at the word they were to draw and fire there could be only one result it was a daring proposal but whether it was a bluff or not was never known the other craw fished and apologized and the outcome of it was that the two men became partners but ln deadwood ever intimated again that the young fellow was lacking in nerve he ile showed that he had something about him chicago inter ocean |