Miscellany.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 436, 24 September 1880, Page 3

Miscellany.

ONE THING AND ANOTHER

(Collated from orm Exchanges. J

At a banquet recently given to him, Mr Herbert Gladstone told a story of a new Eton boy. who, being unaccustomed *► to the ways of the place, took his prayerbook to chapel on the Saturday, and was lucked down the stairs for a saint; 0 on the following day, profitas ho thought by experience, he left his prayer-book at home, and was kicked down the steps for an Atheist. The company made very merry over his story, fc but they would have enjoyed the joke a great deal more had they known that the juvenile hero of tho story they had listened to was the sneaker's father—the Premier of England. " Hold on, don't shoot! I'm not an animal, but a fellow-being," exclaimed a lonely Yankee traveller, as he suddenly came upon a hunter who had levelled a rifle at his breast, and seemed about to "* fire. " I must shoot you," was tho ominous reply ; " I am under a vow to do it. I vowed years ngu that if I ever came upon si man uglier than I am, I'd shoot him down ,011 the spot," The traveller gave tho hunter one searching **» glance, and then, with dewrmined y(>ic<i > said —•• Shoot away: if lam uglier than you are, I don't want-to live." The crack of the hunter's rifle wa:-vnot "* heard.