THE STORM.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1310, 17 April 1883, Page 2

THE STORM.

FEAHFUL ENCOUNTER. [By Standard Carrier Pigeon.] The god of rain and the god of thunder got into a “muss” on Sunday evening, and the consequences were anything but pleasant. It fell out in this wise :—Old Tonens wanted to run what he termed a thunderstorm show and to prove that he could, when tackling electricity, knock Edison into a cocked hat. He had secured one of Barnum’s agents to witness what could be done, and he let go. The first flash was not a big success, as, through some mismanagement, the machinery didn’t work, consequently the effect did not come up to expectation, but the thunder was worked up to a nicety, and it rolled and rumbled and growled, and generally kicked up such a row that the agent was in raptures. “ Bravo,” he cried, fix up your lightning apparatus after that style, and your engagement with the Boss is a certainty. The beastly noise awoke old Pluviua, who the day before had had a row with I'onens and he yelled out, “ Now just you look hero If you don’t cease fooling I’ll get up and buret up your show,” “ I’ll defy you,” said Tonens, ae he let off a fire scene which lit up the whole of the Heavens and immediately followed it up with a roar of thunder, the effect of which was that Pluvius got mad, and, jumping up, commenced squirting water like fury. This somewhat frightened the agent, who immediately swam to his hotel and watched the affair from the window'. No sooner did Tonens start with his electric light business than Pluviua would commence with his watering-can, and put th® concern out.

It was a hard tuascl, but eventually the God of Fire had to give in to him of water, and the old buster is so delighted that he has kept up a downpour ever since.