Under Chloroform.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 284, 25 July 1888, Page 3

Under Chloroform.

t Cui,oiioi'OßM or ether, doctor?' ' Stait him will) chloroform' is the response. A handkerchief moistened with the sickoning sweet fluid ib placed to the patient'? nostrils. ' Long breaths !' calls the surgeon, and the patient tries to answer ' All right !' but his voice sceme to him to step high, like the legs of a drunken man. Now he hears an elevated train coming. It is run by electricity. Its roads are of white light. Every now and then it dashes past a station, when a bell rings. ' Happy V inquires the surgeon. 'Ye-es,' answers the patient, with an effort, ' Happy ?' the surgeon asks again, and there is no answer. . . . A blank, it may be of minutes, it may be of hours, then softness, warmth, comfort ! He is in the little country graveyard which he knew when a boy. He is sitting by his own body there. It is a sunny, summer afternoon. The birds are singing. And he can smell the odour of the pines as they stir in the breeze. ' Spit it out !' urges someone in a friendly tone. Spit out what, death? Ah, the pain ! and ho is off' into blankness once mote. A moment of quivering, and again the balance strikes. This time he half opens his eyes. * Yes -it is all right — it is all right !' he says to himself ; and then, as if he saw it written in great capital letters, the thought confronts him, ' This must be coming to f — From ' Scribner. '

There is a great deal of Avhafc billiardists call "side" in the conduct of the Napieratreet School. When a child wants ti drink he rises and says to the school raarai, "Madame, I thirst." "The letter 'o' is very much like a horse," remarked the Judge. "In what way?" a&ked the Mayor. "'Ceo makes it RO." Lies of great, men all remind us Wo can Ho as well as they, And departing leave behind us Debts w never mom ay.