On, the Deceitfulness of Human Nature.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 2

On, the Deceitfulness of Human Nature.

[By A Youngest Boy ]

I now had a drecliul experyenae of the deetfulness of human nature. Mi eißter (the eldest wun) aais it will be a warnin to me for the fewture to avoid makaing prqmisskewse acwaintanßes. i ahelW jolly" careful after this i can tell yO,U. '■.' , f rr,> \ s,. ° r / i am obliged to rice this essai in a verdict puzzishuff, as there is nuthih to cit downe upon in ttbe -garrit where * am lockt up. Not that i care about eittiq down thow. Ever eince that petto interview with mi mail progennitor in the studdy after the secret of mi intimasy with Plantagenit was reveled to the iee of mi fauamerly, i hay not j kared mutch abowte pitting downe. To begin with, all this wold never have happeqede ,if Gorge Parker had not had the meezleB. i shold never hay thought of chu.rn.eing.up to.eny .Q.ther^felow if George had been healthy enuf to get into ecrapse and enjoy them as yewaual. .But GeorgO was laid up, and I get so joly sick of loping abowte by miself that when I met that boy cummin owte to the tofy shop with a bag of mint bnlsize and a pakit of sigarets, and he offerede to trete, I thowt that the finger of providense mi ante keeps goin on abowt, had sumthin to do with it, and aksepted the proffered hospitality with alakrity *• Mi nairn is Richard Plantagenit Montmorensy," said he, " what is yourae?" i told him, but you may goss it sounded chepe alongsid of such a splendid nairn as that boyse. N.B.— He wa3 a pail, elite yuth, with a good dele of hair, in check soot and a dene colar. His voyso was hi and his teeth were wite ; ho shoed them a good' dele wen he emiled. Then he ast me were i lived, and i shoed him tbe house. N.B. — Mi sister (the eldist wua) was in the akt of coming down the stepse. "How luvly she is !"' said the pail, slim boy, heevingr a tremendis si. Then tbe teers trikled downe his face in ernest. " I am a miserable, lonely orpan," sais he ; " how gladly wold i change plasis with you in spite of all mi ritches ;" here he heeved another si. " Are yu so very welthy ?" i asfc him. " Welthy ia not tbe nairn for >t,'' sais he, pulling a hanful of half crownee out of his trousirs* pokit, and giving me a glimpse of a gold watch and chane. "i am the last surviving sighon of tho houee of Montmorensy, and the air of a noble dukedom." I felt a little shi at the thought of PlantagenitB being a duke, though he was only anuther boy. He put his hand into his pokit agayne and pulled oute a kupple of notae, which he handed to me. N.B. — i had newer held, so much muney in mi hand before, and regarded the preshus dokmeots with respectiul aw. " Here yung shaver, run and get these changed for me," saia yung Plantagenit "Be sure and go to a plaid were yu are knone," he added. "Is that the grene- j grosers were yure fammerly deols ?" " Yes, yur graship," saie i. "Then go and get 'em changed there, and be sure yu say yure father sent you," says he I departed, and presently returned with the munny in gold. He p'ikited it, and gave me wun of the half-crownse. N B. — i wold hay refused to aksept the coyne, but that i feerecl to hnrt his feelings by doing so. "If you knu bow weery i am of the eplender of mi pallis in Pikadilly," sais he. " Gold and silver palls upon the i, and piktures, and statutes is weerying to the jaded seneis. If you would content to paes the evening with me," sais ho, " shold be grateful for yur kumpanny." i hesytated, but he wold take no denyal, saying that mi par6ntee wnld not be likely to thro obstykles iv the wai of my intimasy with a Plantagenit, and after aranging to call with a carriage and bayse, to take me to hie pallis that vorry eeveningr, he wistled, and a person with a horse voyse and a stubly baerd came up. Plantagenit said the ptirson was hia tewter, and though he mite hay bene cleener, he wai- vorry le^peckful, and kept calling me my lord, till i wished George Parker had i beno thore to hear him. Then the yung I duke xcbanged watchia with me, takemng my old silver wun, that mi ante gave me, and giveing me his luvJy gold wun inoted. We then partid and i went home to diner, feeling as if everyboddy who went past mupt wisper to sumboddy eL?e, " There goes tbe boy who kno's a duke 1" As the shadse of evening fel, i put on mi Sunnday coot, and bruaht mi lockse with kare, and borrowde a elene coler and a bankerchief from mi sisterse rurae, and descended to the hal in splendid xpectashun. There was a thuodering nock at the door, but it was only a paliseman. In his glov'd hand he graspt two five pound notse. Our ereengroeer akumpanied him. He was pail with wroth. "Yure the yung raekle as changed two forged five punnotae at miahopp this morning," sais he, and eeisis me by the coler. I kick&d his shins, and my mail projennitor came out of the studdy, heering the noieo. Then it alle kame owte. Plantagenit was a glairing impostor. The story abowte the pallis and the carrige and bayse was Use. The wotch he had giveden me in xchange for mine wa<3 imitaehun golde. Even the half-crowne he had preat upon mi ackseptance was a bad wun. Worst of alle, he was not a genuine yuth, ouly a female smasher, the paliseman sed. A retchid misrable girle in trowsis pretending to be a boy ! This is a beastly world, when yu hey nutbing but dri bred and a silver fork for diner.— "Judy."