THE MAN WHO CARRIED HIS POINT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 359, 27 May 1874, Page 3

THE MAN WHO CARRIED HIS POINT.

The following ridiculous story is told of a neighbouring committee man. The evenbefore the day on which he was to pay an official visit to the school, his wife put a new ceiling in his pants, and accidently left the needle where she did her work. Arriving at the school, he stilly returned the salutation of the polite teacher, and majestically settled into the " company chair." It did not seem to the most acute observer that he had just touched the chair when he at once began to assend. A wave of perplexed pain pasted over his face, as his hands soothingly parted his coat tails. The look of blank surprise of the teacher drew from him the blushing explanation that he could never sit j>n a "cane seat." A wooden chair was at once offered him, into which he dropped almost as quickly as he got out of it again. The instant he struck on his feet he shook his fists angrily in the face of the astonished tutor, and hoarsely shouting, " I kin whip the peweerlanermus man what stuck the pin in them chesrs," he caught up his hat and Red home. " Lord Eben ?" exclaimed his wife, as he tore into the house. '• What's the matter with you ?" "Matter !" shouted the infuriated man, as he snatched off his coat and flung it out of the window. " I have been made the fool of the entire district by that sneaking teacher," and his Sunday hat flew through another wind»w. " Pins stuck in my cheer as I was setting down as onsuspishus like as I am seting down in my own " " Lucrefcia ?" he ominously bowled, aa he sprang»dut of that chair and spasmodically •went lor the wounded parts with both hands, you're foolin' with your best friend now, and he ain't in the hnmour to stand .the triflin'." In an instant it flashed iuto the good lady's mind what the trouble was. In the next instant Lord Eben's neither garment was over her arm and there — there in the midst of the repairs glistened the source of all the annoyance. The unfortunate man gave one brief stare at the evU thing, and falteringly remarked as he thofght of the future. "I'd a gin twenty dollars, Lucretia, if you hadn't found it."