UNITY IS STRENGTH ONIONS IS STRONGER.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 52, 30 June 1880, Page 2

UNITY IS STRENGTH ONIONS IS STRONGER.

Jim Crow's daughter ' . Was going/to a ball, But she fell m the gutter, ' So, she' couldn't goat t£H. ; V ■ Bi^y Nttets (Poet). Hisfcoyy repf »t9 itself, and the fate «f the fein&ki Crow wa« that of a gay young cock, named Mountmorris, although tilt mode; of the calamity was slightly di^orent. ftil grea,t men have their respective weaknesses, and that of our hero wala rabid .penchant for onions, Ws "of-:«tich*ach«i«ater that m order fa gratify'it no risk was considered too great or. sacrifice too. dear. On the night of the last ball m the Public Hall .Mountmorris,; " puffed, - powdered; ; and shared "- was whiling away the time until the.: arrival of the fashionable, hour when he. would burst upon an admiring assemblage, radiant m white, kids and patent .-leather*, and m the. interim, dropped, into . the. sanctum; : of h;is\ landlord, there to {be- . hold his weakness m the shape of tome of the most pungent onions of the, season. -An invjtatioii to join m the repast was joyfully accepted, after which, pleased with himself a^nd all the wbrldj he wended; hi' Wft y *° the Temple of Terpsichore. At the porch he met his messmate Lieutenant M'Sorlty, who the moment our hero got within fire yards of him pulled out a pock«t handkerchief and clapped it to his nose, a positin which was rigidly maintained during thefol^. lowing conversation !:— " Hearens ! Meuht' old :boy, ;wbat> have you, been doing ?" " Doing, why nothing tHat I am aware of," said his friend who of course was oblivious of the. aroma, which as he opened his mouth came m a thick and fog-like volume lufficiently strong to be cut; with a knife. | An explanation took place, and 'the gourmand acknowledged that he had- partaken' largely of his favorite esculent. : Eive minutes Jater r MDuntmorris: acting upon the advice of M'SorJey wa» on h« return. home, while th*e young and beautiful, .watched, waited; and wondered why he came not.