“THERE YOU HAVE IT.”
A very respectable, round-bodied gentleman was sitting squeezed into the stern sheets of a skiff, floating most agreeably to himself down the stream, the gentle, southwest breeze giving the sail of his boat a shape very similar to that of his equally well-filled white waistcoat. Suddenly 110 was hailed from a boat coming towards him with 4 Hallo, you, sir 1 what are you doing in that boat ?’ He maintained a dignified silence. ‘ I sav, you, sir, what are you doing there ?’ repeated his challenger. ‘ You have •• t bus,,,-: sa in that boat, and you know it !’ A slight yaw of the skiff.into the wind’s eye was pn'y sign of. the stout navigator’s agitaiiou ; but when ‘ I tell you, my fat friend, yon have no i-usmcss in. th--.i boat ’ came across the water, lie. could longer restrain his ire, and shout-.-i hack : . ‘No b.usincss in this boat, air ? d’ye moan V 4 1. mean vrhat 1 . say,’ was the repsy ‘ You jjaYe no business in it and I’ll prove it.’ ‘ I think you’ll prove no . .such tiring,’ cried the badgered •gentleman, 1 Perhaps you don’t know, sir, that this is my own pleasure-boat?’ , ‘ That’s it,’ said his tormentor. ‘ Now • you have it. No man can have any business in a 'pleasure boat... Good day, sir. That’s
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 164, 23 September 1892, Page 8
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