Ready, Aye, Ready.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 87, 31 January 1885, Page 4

Ready, Aye, Ready.

Tiie practice of carrying revolvers, which was growing so common in England a short time ago as to excite indignation and alarm, is now evenmorefirmly established in Paris, and, as it seems, with rather better reason. A judge of the assize courts has lately been strongly protesting against it in a case which may be quoted as one of the examples that daily illustrate this growing fashion. It was the case of a man who, having been deserted by his wife, and not having been able to find her for a long series of weeks, had apparently given up the pursuit, and was wandering in a rather purposeless way about the town, when he accidentally perceived her in a restaurant in the Rue dcs Martyrs with her new friend. Upon this he at once accosted the pair, and pulling out a revolver, proceeded to attack them. Which of the guilty couple he would have fired at if he had been left alone may perhaps be doubtful. If ho had followed the advice of that eminent hero, Alexandre Dumas, he would have chosen the woman ; but as it happened —and this is the noticeable part of the story — her companion followed suit by also drawing a revolver. The latter had the worst of it, and was only saved by an accident from being killed. The husband was tried by a jury, and, of "course, escaped with honour. Another case was that of a man living in the Bois de Boulogne, who was returning home, and had just got out of his cab . when he was attacked by a man who sprang out from behind a tree and aimed a blow at his throat with a knife. The intended victim was, however, quite equal to the occasion, and promptly laid his foe on the ground with a shot from his pockot pistol. The assailant turned out to be a dismissed servant bent upon vengeance, but no attack on his part seems to have been anticipated, and the master probably owes hia life to having been habitually armed.— « Globe."