Hare's a How De-Do!

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 82, 19 December 1885, Page 3

Hare's a How De -Do !

. Oh! Captain Everill! WLy didn't you keep your table knives in the locker, and take, better care of jour Malays?. Herf;haveyou been.causing us no . like ite f; peerß in Tojanthe, you have ' '**called.forth;indignant tears r" v;and now we have to mop them all up, and glad to see you safe again; *'we^-reaUy,;.almost quite thought we %aAloa£,ymV\. Thinkof theinkthat lias been spiiled about you; of the V.amount of electric force which i has jbeeire^pend^d in telegraphing inreplies,. and directions, explanations as to how you were T^bie sought for and.brought home.in ;»ny condition/ even if the finders '.had "jfr tjp&e you up like the Apostles did ! tioa fragments of the two fishes in ""twelve bastetsfulL On the whole, it is by no means certain that it -was not your duty to get. massacred on that Fly Biyw, and it is rather a come down that you were too fly for our hungry friends in New Guinea. Had you got yourself comfortably killed, cooked, and engulfed in the capacious fitomaehs of a small dinner party of Papuan celebrities, you would nave been a pathetic memory like La Perouse or Sir John Franklin.-r-Syd-"ney Globe. .. :. ;