A Boston Duel

I was looking over the stories tlia were sent in last week for the prize and 1 wonder that the editor did no insert thia one, whlch is really to good to be lost : "ïhere isa curiou duel iiow pending in Bosten, wliic' began severa! years ago. Mr. A„ ; bachelor, challenge Mr. R, a marriec man with onechild, who replied tha the conditions were not equal- tha he must necessarily put more at risk with nis life than the other- and he declined. A year afterwards he received a challenge from Mr. A., wh stated that he, too, liad now a wil' and child, and he supposed, therefore the objection of Mr. 15. was no longe valid. Mr. B. replied that he now ha two children, conseqnently the ine quality still subsisted. The next yea Mr. A. renewed hls challenge, havin now two children also, but his advoi sary had three. The matter, whe last heard from, was still going on, th number being six to seven, and th