It Was a Pretty Foot.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 335, 19 January 1889, Page 4

It Was a Pretty Foot.

Tin; funniest incident of ray trip was in a, sleeping-oar. It was in the morning 1 , when most of the passengers had got out of their berths, and only several sets ot curtains were drawn tightly in front of still slumberous persons. Suddenly a foot was thrust out between two curtains. It was small, whito and symmetrical — not more than a feminine No. S— and the merest bit of ankle in sight looked soft and fine. The men glanced at it from the corners of their wicked eyes. The women depiecated the exposure. Then a bold, brazen follow went right straight; to the gretty brazen foot, grabbed the ankle and flung the whole member rudely into the berth. 4 He wouldn't treat his bride so,' said a woman close by. 'It must be his sister.' Then the head of a ten -year-old urchin emerged whoro the foot had been and a sleepy, angry, boyish voice said • ' Look here, Sam, you lot me alone. Next time you ketch a-hold of my foot that way I'll kick the life out of you.' There was a subsidence of sentimental interest and a risibility of mirth. — 'Cincinnatti Fnquirer.'

Ah a mass meeting of carpenters in Melbourne, it was resolved that the Progressive Society and the Amalgamated Society should sink their differences and tako joint action with the non-society men to obtain concessions from the masters which havo been vainly demanded for some time. A considerable soction of the meeting was in favour of discarding tho co-operation of the Progressive Society altogethor, and adhering to the original domand that 44 hours should constitute a week's work, whereas the assistance of the Progressive Society was only obtained by substituting 45 hours. Eventually it was decided to tako united action, and a committee composed of reprosontatives of both society and nonsociety men was appointed to give effect to the wishes of the meeting.