A FROSTY SATURDAY NIGHT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 72, 14 July 1876, Page 2

A FROSTY SATURDAY NIGHT.

+ - The weather suddenly turned into i freezing rain, Saturday evening. TO the change was progressing several peoji ■were in the library selecting mental paii lum for over Sunday. The rain fell silenll and froze tb orouglily, and in a very sin - time the walk which leads down from 8 library building to the street was agla of ice. The first person who appeared: the door was a young lady with a vote of Tennyson hugged up to her. S: tripped lightly down from the step, es ing, audibly, "Even a wild moor with to my heart-—." Then she got up, recoras her muff and book, looked apprehensive about to see who was in view, and tbi hastened home, without quoting anoti< line. She had scarcely cleared thero when a tall man. with a work on bote emerged from the door. The instant! stepped on the walk lie said "Hi cryptogamous !" and crawled oft' into ti snow on his hands and knees, and f covered the volume, which remained« the walk, by the aid of his cane. Folic ing him were two large men. One of ths had the aiitobiogniphy of John B. Gffls They both stepped on the walk togetls The Gough man was just saying:-' 1 am confident that the downfall of men to be attributed to rum—." Twoconspi uous exceptions to his belief were ii® diately made manifest. The Gougli nffl : going down had sufficient presence of tf to catch hold of his fellow, and both !>£ heavy men, they went the whole length l the walk, clawing and kicking each w all the distance. The Gough man goi< his feet and put oft" in one direction, s the other man got on his feet and stop at once in an opposite direction. A while they were doing this a tall $ man, with a book descriptive of the He Land, put his foot on the walk, then sha it at the heavens, and met the pavem* with the simple ejaculation, "0, salem !" The debris of this wreck was! more than cleared away when a very sw man, with a florid countenance, and of Tyndall in his hand, came out. 'jf was saying to himself, "We have down to the base—Gosh—whoop I" was down there, It was a terrible brief struggle. There was a shootmf, legs, a waving of arms, and a spasfflf* wriggle of the body, and the b^e' reached. And for two minutes he' there, feeling around for an under set false teeth, and swearing like a p The next morning was the SabbM bright, quiet, sunshiny morn, and tn e _ of the librarian went out oh the in a very few minutes had acciunulafa book-cover, a set of false teeth, gloves, a handkerchief, and a. g? 0 '" handful of hairpins. These articles now at the library, awaiting identiW*T| —" Danbury News." I