WHY SHE COULDET. He had returned, with his wife from a summer viu ation at the seaside, and he stood in front of the house giving a friend a graphic account of the season’s pleasures j “Went in bathing every day,” he exclaimed enthusiastically. “Ah ?” responded the friend. “ Wife go in too V’ “Oh, yes; every day,” said the returned vacationist. . “ Can she swim T queried the friend with interest. “No-o, she can’t,” was the reply. “She tried and tried'to learn, hut somehow she did’nt get the hang of it. She said she couldn’t get the right kick, and I let her think that was the reason ; but the fact was”—and here he looked up at the house, and sunk his voice to a hoarse inspiration—“the fact was, she couldn’t keep her mouth shut long enough to take four strokes, before she’d have some silly remark to make, when ‘ kerswash ’ —she’d swallow a whole wave, and go plump to the bottom,” and the husband winked rapidly as the scene was recalled to mind, and went into the house chuckling with pleasure. But he hadn’t noticed a woman’s face peering out of the curtains of a raised window. The acquaintance saw the front door open quick y, saw a hand reach out and grasp the seaside boarder by the collar, saw the heels of that individual crack his back as he shot through the door, -which slammed behind his vanishing back, heard a wild and .stifled noise of a human body being hauled over a hat-rack and banged against a wall, and beared a muffled voice like that of an enraged woman say—“ Take that back and I’ll let you up, you wall-eyed yahoo 1” And the acqu dntance, with a countenance of wonder and alarm, passed on, rubbing his head in a bewildered manner. A Hovel Offence. —Shortly before the sitting of the Malvern Licensing Bench on Thursday, Colonel Brett ordered Sergt. Wheatley to take Mounted-constahle Bashford into custody for neglecting to salute him. The arrested officer was brought to Christchurch, where he was released. It is probable an enquiry into the matter will be instituted. The offence is a novel one. and it will be interesting to know under what statute rt can be brought. It is likely that more will be heard before the matter is finally settled. Exciting Adventure With a Wild Boar.— On Monday evening, as Mr F. Joseph, farmer, of Waianawha Valley, near Malvern, was returning with his dogs from a rabbit-shooting expedition, and had reached about half a mile from his home, he suddenly came upon a large wild boar. Mr Joseph immediately rose his gun and gave the animal a shot, but did not .succeed in disabling him. The two sheen dogs then attacked him, but were quickly defeated, and before Mr Joseph had time to re-load his gun, the boar was upon him. He tried to keep the boar off by shoving the stock of his gun into its mouth, but the brute sue ceeded in seizing him by the hand, shakinging it after the manner of a dog, and left him with a nasty wound. Mr Joseph’s hand was bitten clean through, and it is feared the injury inflicted will cause it to be permanently disabled. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills. — Bad Legs.—When from injury, feeble circulation, foul blood, or neglected chil, inflammation, succeeded by ulceration, has attacked the lower limbs, the sufferer may turn for a cure, without fear of disappointment, to Holloway’s celebrated Ointment, whose fame for such disorders has resounded throughout the habitable globe, and testimonials in all languages have been received universally praising this celebrated Ointment, In all old cases Hodoway’s Pills should be taken while liis unguent is used : both together are most effective, and the cure is accomplished painlessly and readily. Under their joint curative influence the -worst wounds or ulcers assume a more healthy character, and shortly begin to fill up or • contract and soundly heal.
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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 130, 19 March 1879, Page 3
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