ALMOST A DUEL.
A GIRL AND A BOY. TEARS AND RAPIERS. I/ONDON, April 22. An IS-year-old girl belonging to a well-known Hungarian family, challenged a young man to a duel under extraordinary circumstances. Fencing at present is a fashionable craze in Hungary, and a young man who was. present while two women were having a bout in a fencing school in Budapest made a remark which the pupils resented, one challenging him to a, duel with swords. the parties arrived on the duelling ground, the youth, according to the regulations, stripped to the waist, but the girl refused to do likewise, on the grounds of propriety. The youth's seconds, therefore, forbade the duel, whereupon the girl burst into tears of disappointment, and the adversaries parted unreconciled.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 98, 27 April 1926, Page 7
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126ALMOST A DUEL. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 98, 27 April 1926, Page 7
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