Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — In Days of Dueling. [ARTICLE]

In Days of Dueling.

To another gentleman one day the same individual sa'd: “Sir, you smell like a goat.” A challenge to fight was the '/(evitable consequence, but said SarAo Foix asked: “To what purpose? If you kill me you won’t smell any better, and if I kill you, you’ll smell a gieat deal worse.” The argument did not appeal to the insulted gentleman, and he insisted upon the duel, out of which, how ver, he only came second best.—Gripsack. A blood-beet measuring fifteen imhes in length, fourteen inches In circumference and weighing four pounds, is a curiosity of St. Tammany; L*