A PLUCKY BOY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 February 1910, Page 3

A PLUCKY BOY.

A ■ writer of social notes in ""-The pluck „ aSd presence, i of.; mind ■ which' had; been exercising,ihe. members of. the West-, end » dobs during: the : weak,' his father -belonging; to - some';of these. ; The, lad,, practically 'schoolboy,'about-'sixteen yoars]6f ;age, :t'ook' it'irito his:.head, after: the'' rest' of "the, household' were.- : in v -;be'd, 1 and presumable, asleep,/to riiri/ out< to 1 the iiearest'- : 'pillar-box-,.; to-. post- some/belated .letters.;' Barely-:"• away:. .a'"-' moment, what '.was .his horrorto 1 fiid: cro'uching 'in:,theparental, hill', an' eyiUooking; ruffian ■ paflt-; irig:, Haird,; and" holding a' blood-besmeared : knife ■ in., a'.:t]ireatemng,: attitude','withwhich' knife ."heT threatened "death • should a, sound betrayihim.', frieiid, however, ; kept. :his■ head, - and':as,:.fortunately:? for/-' .she'.; '.had; /received'training/ in /the'- Japanese .'jitsu'/tricks of ■ strength-'of which : : we ; hear: so much'now-,; atoys.'i'he"-. managed;, quietly, .to/, trip .up. arid 'floor'-his man;-; then, i seizing ;the,, op.-: portiLnifcy,''ho madQ : .a.(3ash for: the street, shoutirig'''loudly for -the /police.- But /in that 'moment >,the/> trespasser/- managed.- to, slip ' out of -.the :ihall,-- and; specially - great was . the mortification. not only of the. boy himself, but' of the gtiardians Tof the;law, :whM,' : th'e;latter -recognised', that . ! it'/must irlg ior r -liigtL. and-'lowy zlS:a woman Had been-. found ~ stabbed in a - back street hard'by' but .a few minutes earlier. - .

j "About.'a' : y& -ago 'ydu -challenged; me, to fight. a.duel." = "I did, sir.",. . "And-1 ;told"' you'-.-that,,l < had- '-just got. married, : arid /I''did..not::care ; ;to..riskJ'myj.life at any . hazard." "I remember. - -■■•-. *Aly - feelings )have:, changed;.,an^.,time you,,want to .'fight, j let -ine.,kno\r. , ,: . ■ ■ 1 - krs:-/"!Hunier. : ;ftQ. :"6hopmanj-"lf ;; .ypu will -out me a small sample- of .this.,l 'will 'find' out; from- my.:dressmaker . how, 'iriany, yards/1 'need,• se ? ( lL][ or the' goods'by post.'' - Little .Willie-. VVhy,■ minima;' thafs'.just;what you said ,in all;the other shops.,V; . .