SARAH EUCHERED AGAIN!

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1372, 23 October 1883, Page 3

SARAH EUCHERED AGAIN!

[Communicated], 0* going home Un Friday night,! partook of 4 lieirty tea, drew my chair to the fire, a>*d taking up the evening newspaper ginne d down its columns. I have a faint recollection of scanning paragraph after paragraph, and of giving vent to occasional mutterings, whi h resolved themselves into the words “ twaddle, twaddle.” when my eye caught the word* •• Poverty Bay Club.” At this point my hand rtltied its hold, my eyelids dropped; and my nead lolled ba k. I was asleep and dreaming. Methought I was suddenly wafted through space and deposited in a large and Ci-tn fort ably furnished room in the Albion Club Hotel. Numbers of gentlemen wellknown to me were conversing with each, other ; but one knot particularly attracted my attention by the confidential manner in Which they Were dismissing some unusually intefce-ting topic. I ILtened intently 1 Yesj t hear the words, “ three years board and lodgings f<ee if you can manage it,” read a dark man from the first, page of a book, entitled “ Masonic Dodges, by Dofor Sarah'' Hereupon, a short Chrixp chuckle agitated the waistcoat, of a -instar looking obesity who held in his righthand the plan of a new building, whilst the other one was plunged deep in his po ket, and from which ftn occasioned metalio jinc could bo heard fietnoDsirating the fact that he hud r7*ino-in-jlxtum. ‘‘ More than Cent per cent,” sai l his blandly smiling companion, ” that will Do for Us 1” After a considerable amount of discussion and much flutter—the obesity with a Chrisp voice made a mo/tem to his supporters, which was immediately taken up by the blandly smiling gentleman who had before said that it would ” Dofor us.” Much Commotion again ensued and some performance wus gone through, which I took to be ballotting. The,greatest excitement now prevailed when suddenly a still n ss fell upon upon all as the teller drew a long breath and in suppressed and sepulchral tones «ai<l ‘‘ 13 for,” and then raising his voice in stentorian tones said “56 against 1” Aery burst f-Tth simultaneously from 58 Ihroais “ Sarah euc ered again ! Three cheers f >rthe Übi«»n Club and Wilson ! Hip, hip, hurrah 1 hu—.” “ Here,” cried my wife, waking me “ here’s the Standard you asked for ”