FIVE DAYS LATE FOR DINNER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

FIVE DAYS LATE FOR DINNER.

Surprise has 'ieen expressed that Mr. Selous, recently mentioned by General Smuts in dispatches, should be lighting in so arduous a campaign as that winch is being waged in German East Africa, seeing that the famous hig game Hunter is now in his sixty-fifth v. v.r.

Those who talk thus do not knoir Selous. The call of the wild is in his blood, and the restrictions of civilisation bore him to distraction.

Onto a hostess reproved him for being half an hour Jate tor dinner. •'.Madam/' remarked the lion-slayer with mock gravity, "what is half an hour to a man who was once five days late for dinner, and then had to walk twenty-five milts to get it!"' Mr. Selous, by the way, always hal a keen regard tor tlw Boers, now liis companions in arms. "Often,'' he say?, "they fed mu when the only return 1 could make was a tune on the zither. I played the 'Blue Danube Waltz,' which was the only tune I knew properly. They said it was Sunday.' 1 " 'Oh, but.' I said, 'it is a Frcneli iivnin !' and they were satisfied.