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Dunstan Times, Issue 793, 29 June 1877, Page 4

His worship—a provincial oneleft his home betimes for the avowed purpose of attending a coursing meeting. When he reached that home once more it was 3 a.m. the following morning, and, terrible to relate, Mrs was sitting up for him. With calm eyes and ominous quietude, she remarked that it “must have been rather difficult for the greyhounds to course in the dark !” He assented with expressive thickness of utterance. “John," she sard, “you’re irrtoxipathd.” “ ’Toxicated—nothing of the fsqft—portly sober—going skirr this .rxbbit—probe.” Arrd he hung upon w verandah the hare he had prudently secured in the market-place of She Great Centre. Ho didn’t skin ffliat hate. He abandoned the attempt after half an hour’s effort, and went Co bed anathematising all hares with skins so hard to get off. In the mornrng a long-suffering woman discoverd the hare with fur unruffled, but the paint sliced off two feet of a verandah post. He said at breakfast that some drunken ruffian must have come in during the night and done the mischief. And his wife agreed with him. —,/Egles. “ The coachmen of Paris are very kind to their horses, especially when engaged hy the hour.