A Diplomatist in Trouble.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 107, 20 June 1885, Page 5

A Diplomatist in Trouble.

A malicious story comes to us about a wellknown servant of the Crown, whoso inches of stature are in the reverse ratio to his diplomatic talents. This exceedingly email but worthy gentleman is the fortunate possessor off* spouse who fills tho Homeric description of a stately Juno, towering in the majesty of her massive beauty above- the other goddesses of Olympus. She is as strict a mother as she is a fond and dutiful wife. So when she heard an incipient riot the other Dvening in the nursery after bedtime, she seized, her slipper and hastened to subdue the over-hilarious youngsters. The latter, with the guile of childhood, extinguished the light before the correcting slipper could reach them, so the maternal enforcemnut of discipline had to be carried on in darkness. Two of the offenders acknowledged the uneasiness of their positions on tho maternal knee by juvenile shrieks. The third sufferer, instead of appealing for mercy in the weak treble of childhood, yelled his protestations in such a ponderous voice that the astonished lady dropped him and gasped, "Is that you, hubby ?" It was. The reckless man had, with unthinking foolhardiness, followed the irate lady into the nursery and got mixed up with his family. He will not do so again .