A HAPPY COUPLE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 776, 2 March 1877, Page 4

A HAPPY COUPLE.

Among the many visitors from tho 'Country, who took advantage of tho recent holiday excursion train (relates tho Argire), there was an old woman, aged seventy-live, who came from Kilmore'ou Monday to laing home her husband, aged’fioveuty-eight, who had spent the last three'months in the Melbourne goal as a vagrant. Tiro old lady had hrrself during the same : period, or a greater portion of it, been an inmate of the Kihnoro Hospital, ■ She was misinformed as to tho termination of “ her old man’s” sentence, and had looked forward to Monday as tho day when ho would bo set at liberty. Her disappointment was therefore great when, on reaching the gaol, she found her arrival a day too soon. The poor old body had managed with the aid of crutches to present herself at tho prison, and was in a great way when she beard that her husband must remain another night in custody. She stated the contents of her purse to bo but Is Cd, and was about crawling away to iiml some place of shelter, when the governor of the gaol had her asked if she would like to stay in the prison, and wait for her husbands discharge on the, morrow. Granny jumped at the offer, and was conducted by the nitron to the female hospital, where there was good and ample accommodation. To prevent accidents, the matron desired her to give up anything valuable about her, so that it might be kept in safety. To this, however, the ■old lady for some time demurred, but at length complied, when, instead of Is Gd, there were found to be 14s in her purse She had several times stated that she was possessed of property, and sure enough she carried witli her a deed of some eighteen acres of land near Kilmore, which had been purchased from, the Government for a sum of a little under Ll-50. All went well with the old body until bedtime arrived, when she retired rather disgusted because there was no “punch.” She declared that if she had known there was none, she would rather have stayed at a public house. Yesterday the aged couple were placed in a cab, and accompanied by a warden were forwarded to the Spencer-street Railway Station, where they at once became objects of interest to all about the place.