THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 930, 21 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION.

..'lliey \yoik<?(l a racket on yoin,s>Griph at llis-1 ionivling-1 ion:-<■ recently. ~jTliey .detected him witling the pie iiploseV-iand 'found that hp had got. i' away with n mince 'pic some cookies, vsome doughnuts, and some cluic.su, Ihe landlady and liei f:an;;l>l<-r resolved en vengeance. They waited till Mi' Griph had devoured the food that ho had taken and made his appearance in the sitting room, Then tho landlady said to her daughter. "Mary, you know that mince pic that wo made out of the meat we bought of the strange butcher, and which proved to be mule meat?" "Yes mother," "What did you do with?" "Put it aside to give to tramps." That made Griph, who overheard, uneasy. " And Mary, you know those cookies that the cook carelesly spilled the kerosene orei'. What did you do with them ?" "Put them with the pie." Griph recollected tlmt there was a queer taste to those cookies and kind of felt like a man who had just started in on the miseries of a first sea voyage. IJut he tried to shake the feeling off. " And Mary," continued the old lady, " yon know the cook carelessly used some very bad eggs to make some doughnuts. Where did you put tho doughnuts?" "I put the doughnuts aside for tramps, too; and I guess when they come to eat 'em they'll think they've swallowed an earthquake." Griph felt that he had, The seasick feeling seemed to grow instead of shaking otF. He grew pale and shivered. The ladies were delighted "Mary," said the old lady, "when you give those things to the tramps don't give them cheese .that's Vvitli 'em, for I put poison into kill rats." Then Griph wanted to be sick, With a melancholy howl he sprang up, mshed up to his room and took an emetic that nearly brought his feet up. And he had a chill and a headeche, und went to bed and stayed there for two days. And most of the time the landlady and her daughter laughed consumedly.