MANY COLOURS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 544, 22 February 1913, Page 7

MANY COLOURS.

Benjamin Black, white, aged thirtytwo, a pugilist, and Joseph White, black, aged twenty-eight, a sailor, each loved and claimed a claybank maiden who lived in Purple Alley. Black, white, and White, black,, met in the grey glimmer of a summer morn.

sight of Black, who was white, White, who was black, tuffied white with anger while Black, who was white, turned black. They passed uncomplimentary remarks. White said Black's liver was white, while Black asseverated that White's heart was black.

Then, White, black, mixed with Black, white, and the circumambient air became blue. Black, white, rammed White, black, amidships, while, White, black, feinted with his left and landed with his right on the Black, white, ne-se. White, who wished his colour would fade, and Black, who was superficially white, now clinched, and they both fell into the gutter, where the air before the light one grew dark, and the dark one saw radiating streaks of light. At this crisis Policeman Brown hove in sight and dragged the inharmonious combination of colours off to be tried before Judge Red, and the whole variegated affair was written up in the lurid style by a green reporter on a yellow news* paper.