A LITTLE MORE TO THE LEFT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 310, 21 April 1877, Page 4

A LITTLE MORE TO THE LEFT.

The following from the Era Almanac of 1877:—" In France it is the-- enafcont t«> joke anil tanghf at every possible the tig, »•> matter how serious. The following eHmtk'tf was invented some thirty years agw, itpropo# v£ one ©E the accomplices in the inuruer yf CJustave 111. of Sweden. The Count JRibbing hail taken refttge in Pari#, and at the time referred t»» was. very elct. Scribe with A fiber had just fimahad the opera of ' Gcwtave, oit le UaJ Maaqtte. * uncertain in several points, says the legend, Scribe went to Count Ribbing, and begged htm to* assist at the rehearsal of fcfie opera. He c»tne and followed the piece with great attention. ' Well/ BLaktd Scribe ea&erty, ' what dw j you say to> it V ' It's very nice, very nice/ aaitl the Count slowly, and somewhat coolly. * But ytm don't seem altogether «ati»ii«il/ Scribe. * Well,* answered the Count, ' you are slightly mistaken; the a£Fair was not done quite in thn.t way/ * What more was thexe f anxiously iamT'i/ed Scribe. 'lt scents to 1 m*, **far I ti'ti remember,' answered J the Count* *>i *.» peri'ect simplicity, * iAat! ?<* vmMn'vtl Aw» « tilth mmy to th- trfi ? Scribe iuwafced h*n», mil aete.t on the j suggestion. Tlie fcare idea o« arranging th«lbaJlet of 1 Cast are * historically, wtti« j the of one of the assassins, is a I very lively one, and, ire moat add, tx-j eeedrngly French." 1