“Dear Sir,–I fear you have misapprehended the Code of Honor. If you refer to the work on the subject by Governor Hair-Trigger, you will find that you have no right to choose weapons, but that the choice is ours, as we are the parties most anxious for the fight. For my own part, candidly, and as a friend of both parties, I can not see why your friend, Craven Hare, Esq., should object to fight with spurs.
“If, however, the meeting can not be arranged on any other terms, we are willing to waive our privilege, and to adopt the weapon of human duellists, the pistol. Very respectfully yours,
“Reynard Fox”
The Animal Declaration of Independence Harper’s January 1857 [edited extract being part 12 in a series of 19]
