CLEVEDON.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 390, 9 July 1918, Page 2

CLEVEDON.

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The following fragment was picked up in Cloved"hi: "And the word of tribulation came unto' Samuel, the prophet. And he arose and called unto him his man-Friday, known unto the common people as Rip \ an Winkle, ui , in the vernacular, as ' old Rip.' And he saitli unto him: ' For some time now have I held nn po.ue. and b.hold. Thou hast spoken as one without a due sense of responsibilities. limit songhtest t-i cause confusion amongst the people. In thy vain adulation for thy master thou hast taken a dead man's monument, and hast named it with the name of the living-to wit. Thorp'* Hill hast thou called Mount Brown. But the p.x.ple I'etU-C to be Confused, Mild there are murmuring* desiring that thou I" called t<. order. Behold, thou also attemptedst. prophecy in that thou declamM that no rain would come to soften the high-ways and bve-ways, and. behold, the windows of heaven were opened, and deluges descended upon the earth, and Uioit art therefore become as a bye-word and jest among the people. Now 1 say unto thee that thy punishment shall be that thou slialt be doomed for a certain time to walk the night, and th\ inlded chariot slialt have feet of clay, and instead of four wheels on the earth slialt have but three, as there slialt be a mud hole under at least one wheel. And when thou has gathered six times one thousand pounds of mud on thy chariot, then shall all the people see if thou have come to thy l ight mind ' " (The rain has apparently washed the rest away.)