THROUGH THE PAPERS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 739, 16 June 1876, Page 3

THROUGH THE PAPERS.

—o Saunterer, in the West Coast Times, relates an anecdote which will demonstrate how in the best regulated minds the old Adam will break out on occasions. A well known travelling sausage and tripe seller, who, in addition to the notoriety conferred on him by the excellent quality of his wares, is remarkable for an unconquerable habit of mixing up tripe and Gospel, is the hero of a tale. Ho was walking Rovoll street on his double errand—to comfort both the souls and bodies of his, customers—when an illdisposed youth of the genus larrikin saluted him with much irreverned chaff, and smote him on a tender portion of his anatomy with large stone. The tripe man stopped abruptly, placed his tray on the ground, and with hardly suppressed wrath declared him-' self thus i —“ See here you young feller, if it was not for the sake of One who came on earth to preach peace and good will to all men, ‘ I’d shift your ear-hole a little further back.’ ” The larrikin turned and fled, thinking and with reason, that further annoyance might result in the singular displacement hinted at.