American Humour. Snow-Bound.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 10 July 1886, Page 3

American Humour. Snow-Bound.

" Tins isn't much of a storm," he observed, as he squinted across the top of the fourfoot driftg while wuitiog for a street car. " Where have you seen a worse one ?'' asked the man with the snow-shovel. "' ' "In the Montana, sir. Tnree years ago last winter the snow was ten feet deep on the level V ' "No! Why,- live stock must ' have suffered ?" " Oh, yes. Live stock didn't pretend to live at all."- i " Roads must have been blockaded?" "So they were. Nobody went out for days and days " ! ''* Were you snow-bound ?" I " Entirely so. I didn't leave the place for ninety days after the storm ?et in; and 1 then I didn't dare tell anybody- I" was | going." " You didn't? Wood they have detained you?" ,; "Well, you can judge for yourself, j hadn't been gone four hours when the Sheriff ordered a reward of 200 dollars for' me." The man with the shovel seemed to 'be in deep thought for a moment, and' then cautiously asked — " Were you in goal ?"■ " ■ «' Yes, sir." , . r " Hump ! I might have known it ! I wish you were back there !" ■ j . ' And he lifted up a great heap of» anow and flung it away in such a manner* as to hit the man in the back. — "Detroit Free Pre.-s " , - v

, A farmeb, who had engaged the s&rvices 'of a son of- the Emerald Isle sent- him out • one 'morning to harrow a piece of- ground. 'He had not worked loirg before all the teeth cattie out of '-the harrow. Presently the - farmer went tout into the field to taks notes 3of the man's progress,- and ..asked 'him how "he liked harrowing.** ?K)h,^ he replied, "it goe& : *n>bit*snioot]iei r now, J since thejtidgs are out."