A COURTING ADVENTURE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 66, 15 May 1869, Page 3

A COURTING ADVENTURE.

lii thte neighbourhood of the BridgS of Dee reside three stalwart ploughmen who thoiight it right [they should visit their sweethearts about "the New Yea*: After starting they refreshed 'themselves at a roadside public house. Thdugh their way was long, their mixture of love and whisky toddy msule \v seem short, and they soon Arrived at one of the blessed ones' abodes. One of the three advanced and ''tirled'' at the window, but ho movement was heard, within; the door was next tried, but with as little success.^ The "stern parent" had taken every precaution to prevent his servant's privacy being intruded upon by a lover. However; love defies locksmiths. A ladder was procured from the corn-yard, and the sweetheart boidly mounted the steps, intending to get into the room of his fair one by the chimney. Bidding his two brethren in courtship "gude nicht, chaps," his head disappeared down the lum. His comrade's, thin! i ing he was in & fair, way of* success, departed; but the adventurous lover had not descended far when, from the narrowness of the chimney, lie could proceed no further. Alt his wriggling land moving only wedged hiuT-tlie faster. Desperation made a profuse perspiration come oVer him • the soot closed his nostril? ; breathing became dimcult; and the poor fellow was nearly, choked: The fire had been " rested," but it now began to smoke, and this, together with the half-stifled cries of the amorous swain, soon roused the inmates of the house 1 . The whole household went to tlie kitchen-, where the good man commenced to give the prisoner in the chimney a severe lecture, which waß interrupted by the prisoner tolling him to let !iim out and ■he would pay all expenses' An att tempt was lipiar Made to 1 push him up* the verifc. It, however, did not succeed". A rope was let down the chimney, but the ploughman's hands were closely wedged in by his side; and h\3 could not fasten it. The man's cries were* now stifled with the soot, arid he* was" in danger of being suffocated. The farmer was obliged at last to. obtain a pick aud .crowbar, and take down part of the gable of the house to relieve the confined lover, whose sorry appearance on his emerging fro.m tho lum was only provocative of laughter, which had the .effect of disarming the worthy farmer's anger aiid shortening the lecture which he had turned over iirhis own mind.— -" People's Journal;"