ON THE LAST LAP

NZ Truth, Issue 1108, 24 February 1927, Page 1

ON THE LAST LAP

Cecilia Changes Her

Husband

(Fijom "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Rep.) A change is as good as a rest, : they say. If this is so, Cecilia Ah. Lapp,", whose: first name— rather . than her second— gives a clue to 4 her correct nationality, should be* feeling at peace with the world m general. But is she? Read on and see. ' W7E don't know, exactly how many '■ times Cecilia has changed husr bands, but we do know that she deserted Charlie Tye,.. whose laundry she had brightened with the sunshine of her presence for .about two years — ■ which, by the way, were not preceded by a visit to church I—for1 — for the tall, dark, and dashing hawker of cabbages, Ah Lapp, sometimes called Bon Lapp. ■ It would appear I .t hat. .Cecilia intended . to make something m the nature of a permanent fixture of Ah, for 'she married him. The Ah Lapps lived at Point Cheva-. lier, and one day recently Ah-j-while dispensing cabbages and sundry , other vegetables around Newton way-rsaw the lady of his heart disappear inside the portals of Charlie Tye's laundry. ,He was not a narrow- minded ' man, but he certainly did object -• to this - clandestine visit to his hated rival at an hour when i Cecilia should have, been home preparing the mid-day chop suey ■ — or whatever was on the Ah Lapp menu for that day. At the moment Ah Lapp had leaped down from his carrot cart and dashed m through the front door of the laundry witnout| ringing to announce his coming, Charlie had been sprinkling, his ; succulent '.''steak' with pepper. , ; ... before Ah/ Lapp' had realized what had made the steak smell so nice, the contents of the tin .were.spread fairly liberally over his face, "m his eyes and over his clothes. It followed m the natural course of events that Charlie was summoned to appear m the Auckland Police Court to say "whaffor" "he threw pepper at Ah Lapp and "whyfor" he hit him with a stick. ■ , ' ."She live with me for two years before she mally Ah Lapp," Charlie explained. "She come to tell me Ah Lapp had hit her yesterday. ■ | ,f She sit down inside. * She been there only five minutes when Ah Lapp come m. He say he kill me. He swear like hell. V "I say to her: Tou go; you 'no come rhy place.' She velly sick then,", and Charlie sighed sorrowfully. ■-.'- ,- "The woman seems to \have been : the cause of the trouble," said the S.M. and convicted Charlie, but let him off without any fine.

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