FIGHTING A WHEELBARROW.

Thames Star, Issue 3829, 23 August 1879, Page 2

FIGHTING A WHEELBARROW.

There was lately working in this district a man who was passionately, fond of wrestling. Now wrestling, as every one knows, involves great muscular exertion, with a chance now and then of colliding with the -ground iv •jr#rjt.un- spleasant manner. And yet, strange as it may seem,* he cherished a deep, undying hatred for navvy wheelbarrows, chiefly because of the labour required to keep those interesting vehicles in motion. It seems strange to me; for a pastime, I considering '• the wheeling of a barrow the most amusing and rational of the two, but there ar»«many differences of taste as there are of form' and feature. Theße two eccentricities were always strongest in our friend when he was in that happy state which Buffon and- other great naturalists describe as . " half seas over." In this condition, as he walked home one moonlight-might he stumbled over a barrow, which was reposing on the formation, after the labour of the day. As he raised himself thoughts of revenge filled hitr soul and grasping the barrow by those parts* contiguous to the wheel which are known M its ears, he raised it so .that it stood pa itiL_ handles, and prepared to throw bit arch enemy or to ,be thrown -himself* AfeQ* I the combatants stood for a few seconds^ he standing back as, far, as possible,.'^ is the scientific way in wrestling, to Tent himself being tripped 'up, but the barrow stood straight up and stiff., Then there; was apparently sharp struggling, and with a great rattle they, came to the ground together. But matters, .were not. satisfactory.; In, not ,vesy, chflice language he. Wat heard to accuse, the barrow .of treachery, of kicking. kirn in the ribs,' in fact, when h«tWa« down. The next round after a littl* cautious playing, faowerer, the chariot was thrown ipnominously, and rolled ftiirn the side of the embankment,, whidh created an itbpression in the; wrettier's mind, that his enemy v,as running away. Time after time, .therefore, he invited it to come up again for another round, but as he did not he went on his way with a boastful swagger. Ifekt ing the barrow was .fpundit,the*^bottom of the embankment; minas ttie wheel, and with a broken leg, which' 'sttffieientlj'aecounts for its not coming np again to the soratch.—Waimangaro correspondent.