POWER OF IMAGINATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 201, 14 August 1908, Page 4

POWER OF IMAGINATION

They had some fun out of young Griph at hi 3 boarding-house recently. They detected him raiding the pantry,, and found that he had'got away with some meat patties, some tart, some cake, and some cheese, The landlady and li;r daughter together resolved on'vengeance. They waited till Air. Griph had devour-d in his bedroom the food he had taken and made his appearance in the sittingroom. Then the landlady said to her daughter:— "Alary, you know those patties that j we made out of the meat we bought, of the strange butcher, and which proved to be mule-meat?" " Yes, mother." "What did you do with them?" " Put them aside to give to a begga:." That made Griph, who overheard, uneasy. "And, Alary, you know the tart "the cook carelessly spilled the kerosene into. What did you do with it?" "Put it with the patties." Griph recollected that there was ,-» 'queer taste about that tart, and felt like a man who had just started on the miseries of a lirst sea-voyage. Hut he tried to shake the feeling oil'. "And, Alary," continued the old la.lv, "you know the cook used some very 'bad eggs lo make a cake. 'Where did you.put the cake?" " 1 put that aside for beggars, too. and I fancy when they come to cat it they'll think they've swallowed an earthquake."

firiph felt that lie had. The sea-sick feeling seemed to grow instead of shaking off. lie grew pale and shivered. The ladies were delighted. "Mary," said the old lady, "when you give those things to the beggars don't give them the cheese that's with them, for ] put poison in it to kill the rats." Then Ciriph wanted to be really ill With a melancholy howl he sprang up rushed to his room, and communed will ■ his basin for a full half-hour, lie bat a chill and a headache, and went to hn , and stayed there for two days. An. most of the time the landlady and h-vi daughter laughed consumedly.