CRICKET BALL FIGURED IN THIS PROPHECY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 24, 26 March 1915, Page 1 (Supplement)

CRICKET BALL FIGURED IN THIS PROPHECY.

The following story is of pronhetic nature, but is nevertheless said to be well authenticated. "A few weeks before Britain declared war on Germany two young officers, one a German and the other a Rritisher, were on a motor tour in the Poutil of England. " They stopped at a small country inn, and sat down in a cool room to enjoy a glass of wine. When (he the glasses were filled the G"rmun lilted his. saying " Fiienil, as sure as I shall set this glass of v.ine down on the table unspilled, so the German Emperor will, ere long, ride in triumph through the streets of l ouden.'' '•As the words left his Uns. a eri'd.-et. ball belonging to some boys playing outside, whixzed through the on< n window and shot the glass from Ihe German's hand, spilling the wine and shattering the glass on tlm floor." (!!,| Mehiiner (eoiifidentialM • " "S;«. sit-; most of us m the s n r \ .*i nt s .ill • I,ceil in the Henri's fnmil.v forty years/ The KinTs Fatlier-in-I.nw (from Chicago') : "Well, Tin sorry for you. but you can't git anv forty years' backwages out of mo 1"