SCENE IN A SANCTUM.

Kumara Times, Issue 495, 29 April 1878, Page 2

SCENE IN A SANCTUM.

A day or two since, I went down to the Patriot office, to persuade Major Scott fr> denounce a fraud practised by the gas company. While I was iu the editorial room, two or three visitors came in. The first one behaved in a violent and somewhat, mysterious manner. He saluted th« Major by throwing a chair at him. Then he "seized the editor by the hair, Lumped his head against the teble three or four times, and kicked him. When this .exhilarating .-xt-rcis- w i 8 over, the visitor shook h-.s fist very close to the Mij'.r's nose, aud said, "Y>ni idiot and outcast, if von don't put that n.ti.-e in to-morrow \ I'll c >me round here and murder you ! Do you hear me 1 Then he cuffed the Major's ears a couple of times, kicked bun some mo e , enipt-i-d the ink-stand ; over his head, poui-d th- sand from j the sandbox in the same place, knocked I over the table and w e „t out. During I alHhis time the Maj u- sat still, with a ! sickly soit of smile on his face., and ' n-ver u.tered a word. When the man left, the Major piekel up the table,) wiped the ink and sand from his face, J a =cl, turning to me, said —" Hanv will ' have his little fun, you see." " !Je. is a somewhat, exuberant humon.st,," r re-1 p ie.l. "Whtt was the object of the i J-ker' "Well, |,e'« «oi S eli hi,, furniture at auciiou, aud I promised ' -.. i

t- nolicii the fact in to-day'd. Patriot, but X forgot it, and he ealteft to remind me of it." "Do all of your frienJs refresh your memory in that vivid place, I'd knocked him down." "N 0 you wouldn't," s-iid Scott; "no, you wouldn't, H,in-y i s the sheriff, and he controls two thousand dollars' worth of oliicial advertising. I'd so-mar ho'd kick nv; from h«re to Borneo and back again than to take that advertising"' away from the Patriot. What are a few bumps and a sore shin or two/ compared with all that fatness? No, sir ; he can have all the fmv he wants out of me"—Max Ade'er.•■-..•■