Do We Know Him ?

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1563, 23 November 1885, Page 4

Do We Know Him ?

' iSbmerWadganui folks; >yerei sjtrplling thrdußh Sydney not long Bince, when piaeiof theni 1 exclifiimed ;' 'f-Ofe'!-'"- there's' old Beetroot," pointing to the well-known ifigurebf'ja 'Bab'gitik'ei 'setjtler, who' is Bupposeci to be touring it od the GoritioentT\qt'^yirqpt^, J , ; it is "^ replied another. "l'll gp.oyer and Wpeak- 'to ,tHeY bfd |bp'y,." ,W;ith, that, the* speaker ran acrosSithe street and exclaimed "jHalloj , Beetroot how >,are .yqu ?" i The '...pewon'-. addlressed, turned Bharply,.rouhd and re- ■ t plied witpbtft $hMsli«h>3^- filjeratfool pm facial expression •' ;§ it Imy name is not Beetroot ;• it" is 'Jones:" T'Ke " other looked at 'him .and bursting with laugh tcr jrejpined i his frienasj 'who wanted to kudw^wliatthefun was ;"" Qh J : -lie. v sayft his Iname is Joneal"'giirgTed o!ut'the one. who had crossed, .the.street. *' .Jonsa«bjj v hanged, its old Beetroot right enough, iyen to his clerical shirt coUar, eye ejlass poti" exclaimed- Another of the Were th^se'young men victims ;pf an optical, psycliicatl, or other delusion, or was the p^rso'n^really^oy^eetToaj. alias Jones fel£iffie|laj^riw|at is he sailing und,gr/ v an- dlias^iov ?'-~News . and Notes m Wanganui Herald.'