AT A SEASIDE HOLIDAY RESORT.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 156, 23 January 1902, Page 1

AT A SEASIDE HOLIDAY RESORT.

la my gron-pawted shelter on t' e pier feven people are sitting, most of us to watch the march past of the Cockney promenadeis, bur. one girl, with wrinkled fori-'hf-ad, is reading a volume of Miss Corelli's, and'another is writing a letter, in rhyme, to j.idge from her long pauses and thought ui biting of the end of her pencil. Two of the others are old ladies di>!':us*i"g ita-ir own affairs iu voices thab dacline to b" ignored. •'And she says, 'Oh,' she sayß. ' Three guineas, aye ?' I answered pretty sharp, I did, I said ' ¥efi, Madam, only three ; in August I shall be getting four, please God, or if I get the new crimson sni r e in -five.' And what d'ye think the had the impidence to say ?'" "I nerer Jift-ve no words with'em.' The other landlady hugs herself con* tentedly. "Take.it or leave it's my CDOtt^. 1 ' •

" She turned roitnl, and with all thd check imaginable she says: • What' makes you call it S->a View Villa?' laß near lost my temper as didn't m/ibEer. You know very well, Mrs -Wbat-iB-it, you've only gob to lean /olitjsot the back winder -" ••%»§•?''*■' ■'" <"» "It don't d,> tq.4^p«ir''em hack;" pays the other, r ',ih May or June. 'chance } that's my v^S^^U''^ '• You anything aboub how to I baven'o uep' thihagHpffidr twenty year without how to tackle 'em. jA'nd^^^^iy, ,, rve had me tro'>bbs. you. You've never known mnßviiKi'atn, to have a boy lost at iijfilplf'wish I hsd," sighed the other. SJP"y biggest give up cleaning the boots sifdng aga, an 1 he won't even look at "the knives and forks." " Tha f / I a'ways pub down to bad bringing up. My way with children always was to knock it out of 'em. Some people seem to have no mor« idea of nmnajiinsj a family, than " "I wish you good evening, ma'am," says the oiher> rising laboriously, and speaking, with sudden heat. " Good evening, and thaok you for your conversation. My motto always is " " Don't nami it," replies the other, 1 graciously.—Pett Bidge, in the Pall Mall.