WALKING BY MOONLIGHT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 782, 13 April 1877, Page 4

WALKING BY MOONLIGHT.

Lovers (says the Melbourne Leader) who are in the habit of taking moonlight walks along the beach between Sand ridge and St Kilda should take warning by a story that an old Tasmanian friend once told me. He was walking with a lady to whom he was engaged on a country road a few miles out of Launceston, when two convicts in prison attire suddenly appeared before them and told them to undress. Remonstrances were perfectly useless ; the men were desperate, and icsistance would have been madness. In abou ten minutes an exchange of cloth' s was effected—the lady it appears was very small—and the lovers weie left in parti-colored garments, richly embroidered with broad arrows, to make their way home, whde the .escaped prisoners went on their way rejoicing. My frietid and his companion Were arrested by the police as soon as they came within the lights of anneeston and it was only by sending for the young lady’s father, who hated the gentleman, that they avoided being locked up a 1 night. If the prisoners at work down at the Sandridge batteries continue to esca) e as thev have been doing lately, my friend’s history may repeat itself on the-shores of Hobson’s Bay.