WHY HE WAS GLAD.
He stood on his bead on the wild seashore, and joy was the cause of the act ; for he felt as he never had felt before — insanely glad, m fact. And why ? In that vessel that left the bay, his mother-in-law had sailed to a tropical country far away, where tigers and snakes prevailed. And more than one of his creditors, too — those objects of constant dread — had taken berths in the ship Curlew, whose sails were so blithely spread. Oh ! now he might look for a quiet life which he never had known as yet ('tis true that he still possessed a wife, and was not quite out of debt.) But he watched the vessel, this singular chap, o'er tbe waves, as she upped and downed, and he felt exactly as if " the edifice was crowned." Till over the blue horizon's edge she disappeared from view ; then up he leaped on a chalky ledge, and danced like a kangaroo ! And many a joyous lay he pealed o'er the sunset sea, till down with a " fizz " sank the orb of day, and then he went home to tea.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 204, 28 December 1871, Page 6
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192WHY HE WAS GLAD. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 204, 28 December 1871, Page 6
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