AN OLD STORY.
An Englishman and a Frenchman once undertook, against their own inclinations. and for the satisfaction of more belligerent friends, to tight a duel in a dark room. The Englishman, anxious to shed no blood, fired up the chimney and brought down the Frenchman. This was a favourite story of Rogers, who used to add. in relating it: “When I tell the story in France 1 yjit the Englishman up the chimney.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue VIII, 19 August 1899, Page 320
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74AN OLD STORY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue VIII, 19 August 1899, Page 320
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