GOOD STORY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1722, 22 December 1887, Page 4

GOOD STORY

- . : « The following good Btory is told by the " Tuapeka Tlmea " '.—"Not iong ago an Otago settler, somewhere inland, passed away after a brief illneea, bequeathing his earthly estate to a maiden daughter of forty Bummera. The old man had always been looked upon as one wto would ' cut up well ; ' aud though the daughter had Borne suitors, the father succeeded m keapiflg thorn at a distance until he pasßed •w*y, for he was very J9alon3 of his daughter's attentions while he lived, and kept her constantly with him, believing that if she waa of eervice to mm, at all, he, her parent, had the firafc claim on her attentions. Ii this way he saved the wages of a servant girl and other llotle neceasarleß which a fashionable daughter entails He had not been many days consigned to mother earth when a dainty young clergyman, a new arrival m the district, came to administer spiritual consolation to the orphan, and warn her against the temptations of the world and the posßlbillty of being tempted into wndlock by gentlemen whose love was not ro ardent bs their greed for riches. To gave her from such a fata he effared to sacrifice himself, and was accepted, and m a few wesks the pair were hitohed up. Sundry creditors asked that the estate be realised which ifc waa, with the resnlt that the charitably disposed young elerlc found h : rmelf the husband of a young heiress, who inherited by her father's will some hundreds of pounds of liabilities, with not even youth and beauty as a setofi The old rivals have C9aaed to envy him."