A LESSON FOR A BULLY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 15 June 1914, Page 6

A LESSON FOR A BULLY.

It was in: G. A. Plenty's "'A .Cornet ni Horse," if we ramftrrber rightly, ithat an English lad of seventeen or eighteen with Marlborough's army fought a duel with a German officer, who besides bei ing a bully was the best swordsman in his army, and to the mingled astonishI roent ami satisfaction of everyone, killed him. The incident is recalled by a story in Hie English papers of a fight between a young English and a German, which has the elements of Henry or Anthony Hope about it. The youth was Mr Denny Godfrey Isaacs, nephew of the Lord Chief Justice, described as a splendid all-round athlete. Among his accomplishments is skill in fence, "'which lie learnt from a famous Italian master. ■'Mr Isaac's story is that while lie was walking in the street in Freiburg, a German bumped into him, and in response to bis glance of contempt applied an insulting epithet to him. Young Isaacs asked for an apology, and when this was refused, struck tlie German in the face with his glove. Curds wore exelianged, and next morning a duo! was arranged. Four days later the two met in the country outside Freiburg unci fought for fifteen minutes with foils. The fight ended in a draw, both being wounded. The German lunged; ami the English boy met it with a parry which was also an attack. His sword pointed at the German's heart as the hitters body came forward, and the boy raised Jiis point to avoid giving his adversary a fatal wound. In doing so ha exposed the underpaid of his forearm, and was wounded there, but his own weapon pierced the German's breast, inflicting a serious "wound. If young Isaac's' feat becomes known in Germany it will give Germans quite an erroneous idea of the swordmanship of young England. Xot one Engli-h boy in a hundred thousand coukl stand up to a foreigner as young Isaacs did.