People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — A Familiat Weapon. [ARTICLE]

A Familiat Weapon.

An Irishman in France wa. chai* lenged by a Frenchman to fight a duel, to which he readily consented, and suggested shillelags. “That won’t do,” said the second. “As the challenged party, you have a right to choose the arms, but chivalry demands that you should decide upon a weapon with which Frenchmen are familiar.” “Is that so?” returned the Irishman. “Then, begorra! we’ll foight wid guillotines.”—Brooklyn Life.