MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 3, 29 February 1868, Page 4

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

A Scotch boy had been sent with a message to a lady, and having delivered it, seemed in no hurry to depart. Being asked if there was anything else that his molher had bid him say, Jock stammered out, " She said I wasna to seek onything for eomin', but if ye gied met I was to tak' it."

" The BeviTs..dead ! the Devil's dead !" Exclaimed a matron old and grey ; " No more need sinners fast and groan, Or parsons sermonise and pray !" " That cannot be," a neighbor said, •Whj listening stood with staring eyes, "Fovwe are toldjn Holy Writ The Prince of Darkness tiever dies !" On hearing thi* the ancient dame Appeared both angry and surprised ! "Comfl, then, with me," quoth sbe in haste, " And see the tidings advertised." They went three furlongs tip the street, ~Ai& e JPJ )Onderi! }g on the Man of Sin, Announc ] fi c ? 5_ a d y er 's door % The natural histor^flh^wi^i 11 ! " given by a distinguished showman in WonTOwell's menagerie, is curious — " This, ladies and gents is the vonderful animal vich is known as the Hawerican voodchuck, .first discovered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the roods of Hamerica. Christopher saw him. quietly seated on.-a_ban.k_o£— olotu>» 7 _o_ viewing the setting sun, and vondering vot vould become of it. This 'ere is one of the -descendants of the same voodchuck, as may be heaeily seen from v his appearance, vich is 57>03t beautiful and striking. He is a solitary

creechur, and is called voodchuck because he lives in the voods and the little bojs chuck stones at 'im. He has hair on his back and belly, and liis tail is much the same. His eyes nre at the opposite end of the body, and assist him in the amusing occupation of seeing* Like most hanimated beings, he is fond of henjnviug hisself, vich he does in a very bamiable and interestin* manner. The vood- \ chuck lives a good vile. My huncle 'ad one rich lived some time and finally .died, though \here uint no tolling how .long he would have '% lived if it had npt been for that unfortunate Lively music on hand-organ.