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Thoughts on Duelling, by H. B. J.

ANY a more hackneyed duellist than our unfortunate friend Bhosh might well have been frightened from his propriety at the prospect of fighting with genuine bullets across so undersized a nosekerchief as that which the Duchess had furnished for the fray.

But Mr Bhosh preserved his head in perfect coolness: "It is indisputably true," he said, "that I proposed to shoot across a pocket-kerchiefbut I am not an effeminate female that I should employ such a lacelike and flimsy concern as this! As a challenged, I claim my