THE PROFESSORAND THE ICE FAY

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1115, 1 May 1911, Page 4

THE PROFESSORAND THE ICE FAY

OR THE WITCH AND THE WATCH. During tho Savage Club's korero on , Saturday evening, Professor Easterfield, who has just visited Mount Cook, related a queer story. When crossing the Tasman Glacier, he had fallen down a deep crevasse. Down, down ho fell until he expected eacli fraction of n moment to be dashed to pieces, but was saved from :' death miraculously by alighting on. the 1 lower chest of the Ice King, then hold-: ing court in the bowels of tho glacier. As , the King was winded by tho concussion, I the Professor looked round lo commit! someone as to the why drid wherefore of toe gathering, and his glance fell upon a' very disconsolate Ice Fay, who was weep-i ing bitterly over an object she held in l nor hand. On approaching her with the idea of administering consolation, she showed him a silver watch, or the best part of one. Astounded at a fairy being 111 possession of a watch, he examined it, and found the inscription "D. A. Kcmiy," a name about which she had woven a' romance, the non-development of which had made her .miserable. The Professor started at teeing the name in such a P ace under such conditions, and in rei£tl a 1 rp c "KE-«xuniinalion admitted that he knew the owner, and would, if no could get out, return it to him. Just at this moment the Ice King (from whom he Professor had bumped all tho air bv iid w?< t ] eSeOn - t) ha(i ? uito Kwvowd. u"l, n n 1 a ? TTan. n< :ing on him truculently soared put of the crevasse, holding the precious watch in his hand, which he had much pleasure n restoring' to its own the club s musical director. , The explanation of tho storv is almost as amazing as the story itself. About Christmas time or later Savages DA Kenny and Marcus Marks visited Mount Cook, and in crossing the Tasman Glaeier the former lost his watch, and until Professor Easterfield produced it on Saturday evening he thought it was gone for good and all. It appears that some weeks later tho Professor found the watch himself on tho glacier, a wonderful find when the vastnoss of the great frozen river ie taken into consideration.