THE COST OF A DUEL.
The principal objection to the duo] os practised in Franco is its expense (says John N. liaphael in the "Bystander"). The cheapest yon can do it for is about ilO, ami you cannot do it for tliat unless you know (lie ropes and have friends in fhielvillc who have no designs on your clicrj no book. As a rule, a duel costs each of the principals from J.'iit) to ,C") 0, and possibly .I'iO moro for "a lesson or tivo" w'fore Roins on the field. lint the greatest anomaly of the whole business i.s that if, by an unlucky dunce, a combatant is killed or badly hurt, his adversary and tlio seconds are liable to penal servitude, tii t,h« French Utiol is sot altocetEor
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 17 February 1912, Page 12
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129THE COST OF A DUEL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 17 February 1912, Page 12
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