RANDOM READINGS.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 112, 23 December 1918, Page 1

RANDOM READINGS.

HIS lasY good deed. Juat one week had elapsed since Tom had landed in America. Returning to his rooms rather late one night, he came upon a man sitting on a door* step, evidently joyfully oblivious to the cares of this world. “Been dining?” asked Tom. “Yes.’’ “D’you live here? Want to get inside?” “Yes.’* Seeing no wife or light about, Tom helped the fellow upstairs and pushed him into the first doorway he came to. As he groped his way out of the house, he came upon another figure, evidently in a limper state than the one he had just helped. “You been dining, too?’’ he queried. “Yes,” camo the feeble reply. The good-natured fellow thought he could n6t do more than assist this woebegone traveller upstairs also. As ho reached the street for the second time he saw a man evidently in a worse state than either of the former couple ho had met. As he approached, however, the man fled to a passing policeman. “Constable,” he gasped. “I demand p’tection from this man. He’s carried m$ upstairs twice and thrown me down the lift shaft!”