ARE YOU ON THE ROLL?

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 93, 11 April 1914, Page 2

ARE YOU ON THE ROLL?

•■ALPENSTOCK'S" EXPERIENCE. Our contributor “Alpenstock writes; The other day 1 was proceeding along the track across the Manganui Gorge, freely inhaling cap draughts of the Alpine air auc\ exuding, equally freely, large quantities of perspiration, and thinking mwiiu j and quietly what a shame it was that the membership of the Stratfor Mountain Club, that useful and energetic body, should .remain at a oeggarly total of about two hundred instead of soaring up to the giddj height of two thousand, when, casting my eyes up the gouge, 1 saw a "sight which .made every hair on the top of my head stand erect witi horror. Near the top of tlie gorge 1 saw a human being tumbling down, having apparently lost Ins footing near the top of the mountain. Humb e-tumble-biff-bash-wollop —down he, came, impinging on the circumjacen geological specimens suchever portions of- his anatomy as were most convenient. , As, in his mad career, he came within hearing, I said: “Hullo! Quo vadisP Or as the Homans, say: Where are you off to?” He said, as he passed me: “1 m going to Sratford; but isn’t it a cow ! here I am, fairly on the roll and still 1 can’t vote.” L said: “Lot me prevail .on you to become.a member of the Stratford Mountain Club. If you become a member, the club will hue ibe goige with velvet cushions and—” But life was a “young man in a hurry” and tarried mot in his precipitate decent and soon passed out of hearing. I therefore bent my steps towards the House, marvelling at the speed of modern travel, endeavouring to pick what kind of weather there would bo for the Gymkhana, cogitating on the mutability of human affairs and mountain clubs, and meditating deeply on the cost of leather boot laces.