UNABLE TO COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 March 1891, Page 4

UNABLE TO COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING.

Footpad (presenting pistol): " Fork ; -over I ;.,- your rhino, and be qui_k.ahoutSiflS|. f^r r | ;^JP :;c-:u:.-:' hted Oxnniari": "'Beg^plrcl_B*!'" ~~ i7:'7::i7 .) : "No monkeying! Unlimberl Pr ;:::•: ihe scads !'* £'} fiX'd'. ".!'■•■ i me, but Ido not exactly appre-h_-.-a :.'. ;• drilL cf your ?" . "(i your patter! Don't you see I've • {■oL 7.., i! .p ! Unlocid your boodle !" 1 "lava tota.lly at a loss, my dear sir, to 'perceive tlio relevancy of your observations, a 4 or tv " r i " Clap a stopper on your gab and whack f up, <>v I'll let 'er speak! Turn out your jf ijjfin ":':• quick ! Get a squirm on you!" "L; [■- aa any peculiarity in the external /see; •■'[)-.■* tn -t>v apparel or demeanour, sir, -that. i.:i«!, voti, a total stranger, to ?" "Once :.:<ne, you dash-bedashed bloke, .will you uncial; that swag?" j (Hopcl- ; :a!y bewildered): "My friend, I f confess ray utter inability to gather any j '; coherent id_a from the fragmentary obserf Ivations ymi Lave imparted. There is some- } thing radically irreconcilable and incapable j of correlation in the vocabularies with which |we endeavour to make the reciprocal or W correspondential interchange of our ideas intelligible. You will pardon me if I suggest that synchronization of purpose is f- equally indispensable with homogeneity of cerebral impression, as well as parallelism 77 !of idiom and ■" m ■■'■ But the highwayman had fled in dismay.