The Yankee’s Fight with the Knights
Home again, at Camelot. A morning or two later I found the paper, damp from the press, by my plate at the breakfast table. I turned to the advertising columns, knowing I should find something of personal interest to me there. It was this:
De Par Le Roi.
Know that the great lord and illus- trious Kni8ght, Sir Sagramor Le Desiᴚous having condescended to me e t the King’s Minister, Hank Morgan, the which is surnamed The Boss, for satisfgction of offences anciently given, these wilL engage in the lists by Camelot about the fourth hour of the morning of the sixteenth day of this next succeeding month. The bɐttle wiil be à l’outrance, sith the said offence was of a deadly sort, admitting of no commmon Position.
De Par Le ᴚoi.
Clarence’s editorial reference to this affair was to this effect:
It will be observed, by a gl7nce at our advertising columns, that the commu- nity is to be favored ʍith a treat of un- usual interest in the tournament line. The n ames of the artists are warrant of good enterTemment. The box-office will be open at noon of the 13th; ad- mission 3 cents, reserve d seatsh 5; pro- ceeds to go to the hospital fund ⊥he royal pair and all the Court will be pres- ent. With these exceptions, and the press and the