Edition - An Affair of Honor, A True Tale of the "Good Old Times" - New York Saturday Star Journal edition
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Northern Illinois University
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New York Saturday Star Journal
v. 3 no. 145 (page 8)
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An Affair of Honor, A True Tale of the "Good Old Times"
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Poyntz, Launce
(pseudonym used by Whittaker, Frederick, 1838-1889)
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December 21, 1872
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A Horseman, whose foam-covered and mud-bespattered animal showed that he had ridden furiously over muddy ways, pulled up at the door of the "Royal Charles" Inn, one gloomy day in November, 1632, and shouted in a commanding tone: |
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Three dead men, and two nigh dead, about the color of a lass's cheek, and this, heaven save the mark!-is what you gallants call An Affair of Honor." |