Pursuer and Purshed.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 141, 22 May 1883, Page 3

Pursuer and Purshed.

". ■■ ■ 'AMgl&v m the Außtraliarvsays :— riSydnqjr "litterateur, n I am, toW^n •', Veacbjpg bis loom* very late one night Yhaving admitted himself with \ey) fpnnd the v house m: darkness,, and sought^ He had an article to write, felt ,hnroful pf trilliant ideas, and, grouped l about m „every.,likely, and many nnhkejy, peaces ' jn the means of obtaining aljght, butiti Tain He had.. removed his boots m f^the hall co as not to disturb the houses hold, and m his stockened feet.de perately explored by..toneh every piece of famitureto* on which ; Eate^- m the shape of the parlormaid, might have mislaid the? matches. Just, as he was about abandoning the .search, his ears «augtintie : BPund rot footsteps, *t Surely,"' he mentally said, «« this late -wavfater may, Fradventure, supply n^e mth a match I". Hastening to the front door, he foTind that the said wayfarer was about twenty pacea down the street ; yet, m bis shoeless condition, be eavefcba^ Tlie ; stronger suddenly became' aira» that fi, mani was rapidly and noiselessly -appioaching h»m, giive awnt jto4ityell>bf terror, andjinade off dt the rate of iqur|fceen ; .miloß an hour, dropping en route an excellent umbrella I-. aWabariister's bag,i.of whichLthe.sole .contents were «a-pound of sausages. i^foxt' day's 'evening .jonrnals contained \ 4»wi«fapbs v beaded/: i<* Jobbery wiUi ; Wiolene^' ana ' one of -them ian editonaJ f uaiwcatingithe lashtforjthe^garotMv h ■