A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 53, 22 June 1876, Page 3

A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

! ' Tnl-oi l itjf 11 fc Vftgi.-M.nt " in the 1 Zt'ab.ixl Mail" wvittf* :— *• All, who tMialtl (I tutsan the Mr. Potato |>W lilli'ly takfil to iiofcot pVnpri.:fci TK'l with me that lie i-s* a ' W '|" is iaclinytt to give any'*v ui>rhing t.i) anylnwly. tuileet'U » ' of' List wt«t'!c ct'tinners* j'|' i'V'n this point, tiw if peuutiacly lM '' Vv h U.-<c f was walking down In. sustilfntjr came out fruut '|'tvl t >t w'uoh he is tht> promt s "i'. Hi!,| clutching vno fy thy h'tiUcil iu i|. gi.'xiural way t«> "Mount Il |"' --wit, " Hoot num, tlituui ye 'ii sim>p i a tu y pjuUL>»yk- i" I ant t'liv nf tlu? t*rt>ek !-*' \'"i't-iuno Mr. Donald's pinIn:! own words., hut I giifcheml that a particular |>p,iJ*'t« hill was lib, that teave or tiuyticir hail 'SiK,op into it, that t is |>ct Handling > the credit ot out rights

Itberttpa, ami dearest institutions, mid that it was ;t matter that .should rcccne thy attention of the Pies?- Mr. Donald w.w* |»rocec<tiii£ further, when, having L.'tter eyesight than he. f j)"tnted out {•> hint that what he to>»k i»r .«.hcc|» weie tut.'i-wty t|«antit:e?> of dottiest put g*>rse Intshca- t'» dry after some t.itnilj wash." At first he would not believe me, httt at tarii he did, and returned into Ins hotel, and from the fact that his return was greeted with laughter, I conclude that some* people theru must have been practising on his we!i-known _ simplicity of character, aiul showing him for .sheep what were really only itnen and calico.