THE ORIGIN OF SCANDAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 60, 26 July 1884, Page 2

THE ORIGIN OF SCANDAL.

Said Mrs A. To Mrs J., In quite a confidential way, " It seems to me That Mrs B. Takes too much — something in her tea." And Mrs J. To Mrs K. That night was overheard to say. She grieved to touch Upon it much, But " Mrs B. took— 6uch and such !" Then Mrs K. Went straight away And told a friend, the se'f-saine day 11 ' Twas sad to think "— Here came a wink — " That Mrs B. was fond of drink." The friend's disgust Was such she must Inform a ] idv " whL'li she nussed." " Tlint Mis, 8., At hall'-p.iHt three, Was that far gone she couldn't see." This lady we Have mentioned, she Gave needlework to Mrs R., And at such news Could scarcely choose' But further njcdlewotk refuse.Then Mrs B. As you'll agree, Quite prop >rly she said, said she That she would tmck The scandal back To those who made her look so black; Through Mrs K. And Mrs J. She got at last lo Mm A. And asken her why, With cruel lie She paink'd her as d -ep a dye? Said Mrs A. in soinp dismay, " I no such thins*- could ever say ; I said tjiat yoit Much stouter grew On too much sugar— which you do !' f

Jnne (under nine, to governess) — " Miss Blunt, when ma asks you to have some 'nore wirie to-day at dinuer, do, plea e",say yes." Governess—" Why, what do \'ou wish me io take more wine for? 1 ' Jarie— " Oh, I only want to see ma's face.'* • Hawks do not pick out hawks' eyes," xys an old proverb, the French equivalent .r whiijh is that "wolves do not eat each !.her. " Old proverbs, however, which are uly the rude generalisations of our un•iiontiiio ancestors, are generally too sweepug; and wolves do, as a matter of iact, ometimcs eat each other, especially when ley belong to different species. Two' ■ issian stag- wolves aud a dominou French , olf were lately put to occupy a cage in .alva's menagerie as it was leaving Besan>n for D6ie. Soon afterwards terrific' owling was heard issuing from the trolTes' ige. The three cfarnivora were engaged irt ortal combat* and all the efforts of an emloyn so^ic to separate them were in vain. l he two Russian wolves were inhenaible to 1 ( c heavy blows which gained Upon them^ il absorbed as they were in their deadly ftacK f»n theivunfortunateFrench congener.* ive minutes, afterwards the hapless anima£ >a8 dead ; and when the menaireiie r«ache<j ViJq not.ijiny was loft of him but his b6xft& ~" Si JaineVs timattei"