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The Bachelor and the Birch Oil Scandal Ends in Duel
In a whimsical tale from a Ladies' Companion feature, Peter Alexander Knibbs, a village schoolmaster famed for birch oil remedies and grand theories of learning, courts widow Mrs Millicent Mix. A stranger Hawkins disrupts the scene, Knibbs is bested in a brawl, and Hawkins marries the widow two days later, sparking Knibbs to denounce women as the cause of his downfall.
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