A DUEL WITH POTATOES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2502, 6 September 1890, Page 5

A DUEL WITH POTATOES.

Iu County Carlow, Ireland, an aggrieved member ot a certain congregation, declining to accept his parson's assuram e that he was not one of a set of miserable sinners rather pointedly referred to in the Sunday sermon, challenged his vicar to personal combat, and offered him his choice of weapons. The challenge was accepted, the e’er gym an declining, however, to use such secular arms iva swords or pistols, but expressing his willingness to try a novel kind of ammunition—i.e-.. raw potatoes—to l>e used as missiles, ihe bigger the better. The morning on which the novel duel commenced was as raw as the potatoes, which lay in a heap by the side of each combatant. The potatoes were to be thrown alternately. The challenger commenced, and missed. Ihe clergyman, aiming calmly and scientifically, raised with his first shot a bump, upon his opponent’s forehead almost as as the missile which caused it. The SET K?" ■iL mi S 25? d afford* to be magnanimous, put down his potato advanced to his aggrieved parishioner. Laid out hia hand, and said. “A'due. Mr. 0’R.,1 think were a couple ot idiots. Let us shake hands and he friends, and Utilize these vegetables for a more peaceful purpose at dinner to-night.” — ___