JUST HIS LUCK. Sad Disappointment of a righting Young Englishman.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 101, 9 May 1885, Page 5

JUST HIS LUCK. Sad Disappointment of a righting Young Englishman.

" I wish I was in London now," said a young Englishman on the front end of the car. " I would enlist and go down to Egypt, by Jove, I would. It makes my boil to think of it." " Whatch yo leave Lun'on for, in de furst place ?" asked the driver, as he pulled the chain around the brake until the hind end of the horse came over the dashboard. " Oh, I left London, you know, to come to this blawstecl country, and got here just as the war ceased. That's just my luck, by Jove, always to get in too late. I was scrry the war was over when I got here. I would have liked it, you know, to have taken a hand in this American war." " So yau'cl like to go down to Egypt and take a hand ?" asked the driver. " Yaws, I would, by Jove. But wats the use? It would be over before I got there. That would be just my luck, you know." " Whoa !" yelled the driver, tying the lines around the brake. " Say, my young feller, I'm kind o' head of time this trip, and I've got a few minutes to spar. I'm again England for every confounded thing you 'kin think of it, and I come from Egypt myself. An' as you're spilin' for a fight an' its never been your luck to git into one, I'll just wallup you in that sowdrift, for luck." " But I get off here, my deah fellow, any. way, you know. It's just my luck, by Jor«. Good-day, you know."