NO SPOTS THERE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3835, 31 October 1883, Page 4

NO SPOTS THERE.

It began to rain again soon after dinner yesterday, and a disgusted citizen who came down on a Woodward car beside an old man remarked : "I presume this is owing to those spots on the sun." "Hey?" called tho other, as he put his hand to his ear. "Spots on the sun !" yelled the other. "Hey? Spots? Where arc the spots ?" "On the sun ?" "Hey?" " On the sun !" The old man rose up, crossed the car, and looked out of the window and squinted around for a minute, and then returned and said : "Cant-see the sun 'tall. How did the spots come there?" "I don't know." "Hey?" "I don't know." "Have you seen 'cm ?" "No." " You have, eh ?" " I said no." "Oh! you haven't? What was your object in telling me thero were spots on the suit ? lam not so old that I permit any one to make a fool of me r" The other now looked out of the window and assumed a careless air, but the old man was right after with him: '' You come into a car when I am minding my own business and begin to talk about spots on the sun. Who are you, sir? Did you want to get me up to pick my pocket?" "They say the rainy weather comes from tho .-pots on the sun," explained the other. "Who says so? Name the man! I'm around all the time, and I haven't heard of any spots on tho sun ! If you think you can work any game on me you arc badly sold." The citzen got up to change his scat, but the old gent pulled him down and said : " You wanted to work some sort of a game on mo, and I know it. If I ever catch you within a rod of me again I'll tic you up in a knot in two minutes ! I'll put spots on you till you can't sleep !" Tho citizen made a break and got out, and though ho had no umbrella he dropped off in the midst of the rain with the look of a man glad to make the exchange. Ho had just reached the curb when the old man came to the platform and called out: " Took me for a- greenhorn, did you ! I wish I'd walked you right to tho police station. Ah! you miserable swindler! Spots on the sun '. Maybe you madosomething out of sweet-oiling around me !"