Adding Insult to Injury.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 215, 15 August 1883, Page 3

Adding Insult to Injury.

Wtien PaVßerrigan ran the mail on •tiiei JNorth-East^rn line m jY.ictoria (says a Sydney paper), he wa« late one trib coming Vo'Beechwo'rth ; and, to 1 "' make up r for lost time, he " wenfc for the* dist£nW' r Occasionally, "while speeding : along over the' stumps and botjlders, be'|heard plaintive yells from behind ; I bat, supposing that they pro* . ceeded from passengers, who had been slang out arid were dying m agony, he of course took do notice. At last, howeveV^ a'mbstl demoniacal collection of unrjevised editions of curses compelled him to tarn round. The imprecations he perceived, came \ from a little man whose' head bad been knocked through the; roof of the coacb, and whose neck l was firnny 7 fixi^d ! iri a setting of leather by ih^debris of his own bat', collar, &o. " lyl make it hot for you, you unrevised edition of an abjective driver;"' gasped chojcftig passenger. «'flold hard, you n. { i : ' 7 Bcdqndrel~^-»for' God's sake do stop— pull for a minute' — <*; ! 3d; 1 >Pm ( laying— do, pleasa I" «VWe'll t "' Jv cb6ly // rcitu<ned Pat. «I'm raitber late, as it must^e pretty close inside the coach, I ttiink yfcu'd better stay | where* you are, and' get the fresh . air. -I besides its i only ten miles to Beechworth 4ib^." J "I'll summon yon ! whei we gel thete ; I will, by — ," "shrieked the , man who had his head outside. " Ail rig^toate," rfetdrnei Pat, ** we'll see." Arrived m Beechworth, the horses were unharnessed, and the remains of the , | passengers j taken out of the ooach, dressed by a local Burgeon ana put to bed. And then Fat weut round to the police office, and took out a summons against the little man for damage done to the' roof of th c coach.