'A Very Careless Free Lance UNKNOWN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 380, 26 June 1889, Page 6

'A Very Careless Free Lance UNKNOWN.

' The characteristic free lance is too much a Bohemian to know how much he is making,' writes 'Gavin Ogilvy,' in an article on the literary calling in the 'British Weekly.' IHe has a pound or two in his pocket ; that is .all he cares about. The 1 other day a notoriously careless free lance was searching for a letter in his trouser pocket, and a cheque for £20 fell out. The scene was a club, and a friend, lifting the cheque from the floor, handed it back to the owner, who again stuffed it into "his pocket. Nothing unusual struck him in this action until he saw the other laughing, when he explained that he • was really very careful about money. He had a sheaf of cheques, he said, in a case in his inside pocket. Asked to what amount, he thought to two or three hundred pounds, but was willing to make sure. The case was then overhauled. It proved to be one >of the lictle leather cases that hold three letters with comfort, but now> it bulged out like an alderman. It had burst at one end, and the owner took credit to himself foi his forethought in having tied a bootlace round it. The contents were some fifty envelopes, nearly all of which contained cheques for sums averaging from two to fifty guineas. Some of them were a year old— their owner being surprised to, see ! them — and in all they amounted to almost twice as much as, he had thought. His way is to cash them one by one, as he needs them or comes, across them, and he seemed rather perplexed to find that he was so wealthy. This was, not safe, his friend told him, and he admitted it was not, adding that he must go- away some- j where and spend 'more freely. , Should he* read this, he will bear no malice. ' Of course < he is a baohelor, but he has a heart for all. that. 5 . • .. „,

Calliope Kane is described in England as "Kane and able."