LUCK IN A BOTTLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 164, 10 January 1914, Page 4

LUCK IN A BOTTLE.

HiINII PEASANT'S FIX!). London, Dei-ember .It). A peasant 011 the wc,i eoa-1 «f Ireland liiiil Ihe Hiiod liicli some weeks"ago to pick up a bottle with a piece of paper in which has led lo receiving a substantial Christmas yift. from America. Some months the rich proprietor of an important American mii''anne viritoil Uiiiope wilh his little daii'diter , On their way t>sn-k lo the I'nited States the "ill wrote her name and address on a piece of paper, which -he put in a hotlie and dropped overboard in mid-oceau. The bottle was found by a poor Irish pea.-aul, who urole to the address. The sequel of the stoif- is told by Canon llaunay. rector of Westporl, County .Mayo, and a well-known writer under the name of Ceor.ne A. Dirminghim. who is now visiting \ew Vork. lie met the editor of.thc magazine, who told him of (.lie receipt, of the letter from the man who had picked up the bottle. The writer said thai he was poor and hail a larye family, and asked for help. ('anon llaninu knew the man. and was able to verily his story. On Christmas nioniinj; the peasant, who is still aware of Ins good luck, will receive a substantial present ill moiiev from the fa I her of the little girl who dropped the bottle overboard.