A Tale of the Sea.

Manawatu Herald, 28 July 1896, Page 3

A Tale of the Sea.

And here is another wise judgment, which is old enough to come from Thibet, where Professor Max Muller finds so many quaint stories —probably only adaptations of some anterior period. All these subtle devices to outwit rogues and imposters come from the East. What judge was it, by-the-way, at an aslize town in the direction of Flymonth who said that the further he travelled west the more convinced he was that the wise men came from the East ? But to oar story : A rich merohant died. He had one son, who, when quite a lad had been sent I to an uncle in India. On his way home the young fellow wag * shipwrecked. It was believed that he jßao»ped4ro»BiiigT though no tidings of him could be obtained. Bis father died, leaving his fortune to the care of an old friend, not to be handed over to any claimant until certain injunctions had been fulfilledr At the end of a year a young man appeared declaring himself the heir ; then a seoond and a third arrived on the scene. The guardian gave to each a bow and arrow, and desired them to use the dead man's picture as a target and aim at the heart! The fir3t nearly hit the mark, the second drove his arrow home, but the third burst into tears and refused to dishonour his father's memory by desecrating the portrait of one whom he had loved and revered. The guardian knew which of the three was entitled to the fortune.