SCRAPS FROM OUR NOTEBOOK.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 33, 26 September 1868, Page 3

SCRAPS FROM OUR NOTEBOOK.

No.I— "HAED UP." Of all the ills that flesh is heir to impecunioßity is perhaps the hardest to endure. The sun may shine as brightly as of yore, yet he shines not on the path of the penniless. The beauties of nature solace him not ; her mountains but taunt him with piles of debt; her vallies are .suggestive of emptied pockets. The fair barmaid at whose shrine he was a .worshipper changes her tone from the endearing accents of love to the bitter snappishness of the scold. The worst portions •f the dish are tardily doled out by the •rstwhile jovial, but now gloomy, landlord. He endeavors to act in an easy manner, but is silenced as an impertinent. The flashes of wit bring forth now no responsive chorus of laughter. He slinks about with closely buttoned coatj and rumor deprives him of a shirt. He braves the •torm with an unbuttoned front, and malice whispers, "foul linen." His dreams are of thousand pound nuggets, and of buried treasures. His day thoughts run on successful roguery. He gloats on jewellers' fronts, yet lacks courage to commit the fearful act. Down, down he sinks, until, ■hould no friendly hand be ifiterposed, he lands amid the wreck — the waifs and- strays thrown up by the great ocean of life. Hunger educates tho thief, and justice claims her own. How different a fate is his if chance or fortune fill his pockets at an early date. In our note-book we find hia actions, when in that happy state, recorded under the word " Flush," which next week shall be presented to the readers of the "Times."