Enter Nous

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 84, 8 February 1902, Page 12

Enter Nous

ASI XSAIION VL elopement iulied the sleeper of a drowsy little settlement between Wellington ami the Ninth Cape last Tuesday week Ihe local amateui detective supplied the blacksmith with tli(> inhumation that Mis>s A — had bet u and gone and cleared out witl< \oung B E\er\one at once knew "that the baleful B had had a wicked optic on such a chance for \eais As notlmiT of <in\ unpoitan.ee had ever happened to the township befoie. the news, got hold and theie were deadly thieat.at doing foi" the \ipei who had taken a \oui\o- and innocent female from the bosom of he i paieuts and a good deal more of that kind of sentimental twaddle The poljcfiujn had seen the young lady with a young man going out bj the morning tram and the lady of course looked pale and the man neivous While the whole population was standing in front of the hotel the villain hove m sight but w ithout the lach The agitated parents sui rounded him and asked for Arabella and the male parent shook B with a viciousness born of a seared heart. B showed considerable fight and injured one or two of the crowd to such an extent that he was locked up in durance vile. As the shades of night were settling ovei the village the coach brought the missing girl back to the bosom of her family Where had she been ? ' Oh Jim (her brother) had a day off. so we went for a bit of a picnic to Punga Gully " Then the population went to look for the amateur detective, and. as far as can be ascertained he will be out of hospital in a week The engagement (with the parents' consent) of B and Arabella is announced +- * * Maivellous how fai a single egg will go in a restaurant if the cook is only an adept at his work Noticed that custard was a favourite sw eet with customers of a certain largely -patronised house in Wellington on Tuesday Noticed also that each customer had a fair-sized rieee of egg-shell hidden away in the mysteries of that custard This fact of course, is an evidence that the custard was really built up with eggs And also of course we are going to that restaurant again to see if the custard and its concomitant bit of egg-shell aie a diuinal feature of the menu as it is liaid to believe that thoie are 'tricks of trade" in honest Wellington

A couple of toleiablv hard-looking c.nst'h tore-gatheied umlei a lamp in Cubd-.srreet the othei moiling and entered into a eonv eisation about dog*> As there 1 weie so few people about the gentlemen may be suipnsed to leai n that then nitoiefcting conversation was o\eilKvird M\ woitl" said the man in the batteied hat but that's a fine clog \ou\e got Must bo woith a lot o' inone\ Joe?' Well yes he's tolerably valuable You mh> the co\ c what I bought 'mi oft a.t Masterton is oftenng 1") if I'll hi ing 'mi back

w ome of the pas.sengeis by the Warnmoo horn Sydney, are still laughing o\»M a diveiting epi.sode of the passage ,ioi oss One of the most stvhsh-looking strange is on board was a lady of imposing figuie and manreis, and considerable neisonal charms The male passeneeis figutativelv speaking, threw themselves at hei feet the ofnceis of the sliii) found the best place for her at the t.'b'e and from the skipner downward p\ei% man of am consequence competed foi the honour of a deck promenade with li.'i