DUEL STOPPED.
Judge T„ a celebrated duellist, in Geoi" gia, who had lost his leg, and who was known to be « dead .shot, -challenged.. ; Colonel T., a gentleman of groat humor ■'- and attainments. The friends tried to' prevent the meeting, but to no effect. The parties met on the ground! when ' Colonel T. was asked if he wafteady. "No," he replied. "What lie you,--* waiting for then 1" inquired Judge T.'a'rA second. "Why, sir," said Colonel'T., *' " I have sent my boy into the woods to hunt a bee gum to put my leg in, for I don't intend to givo the Judge any advantage over me. You see he has 5 wooden leg." The whole party roared with laughter, and the thing wa? so ridiculous that it broke up the fight. Colonel T. was afterwards told that it would sink his reputation. "Will," he said, "it can't sink me lower than a bullet can." "But," urged his friends, "the papers will be filled about you," "Well/gaii he, "I would rather fill fifty papers than one coffin, No one ever troubled the Colonel after that,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2267, 10 April 1886, Page 2
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184DUEL STOPPED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2267, 10 April 1886, Page 2
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