Strange Doings

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 October 1916, Page 3

Strange Doings

(By Walt iMason).

Such strange things happen every day! Old Hiram s a stingy who never once, ainoe be was. planned, blew in a cent with heecliless hand. All through his journey in this vale, his motto was "Salt down the kale!" A tlimo was bigger to his view than is a. skating rink to you. The large round dollar was !his gcd ; no chaiity could touch his wad; privation ooukl not make appeal that would obtain from him one wheel. No safe investment, -in his town, could make him lay some money down; he slaved a.nd starved to gain the plunk, and hid his plunder in his trunk. And then a stranger came along, and gave old Hi a dance and song; lie had a patent trues to pell, which truss would make a sick man well. Enchanted by his siren tones, eld Hi dug up a thousand bones. The stranger took that prince] roll and jumped the town, the genial sotil. That truss (which heals all e'eldy gents), our druggist sells for fiO cents, and Hiram haunts the busy mart and talks about his broken heart.