AND SERVED HIM RIGHT THE WRETCH.

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

AND SERVED HIM RIGHT THE WRETCH.

He. had returned with his wife from a summer vacation at the seaside, and he stood'in front of the house giving a friend a graphic account of the season's pleasures, "Went in bathing every day! "..lie exclaimed, enthusiasticallv. "Ah!" responded his friend, "wife go in too 1" "Oh yes; every day," said the returned vacationist. " Can she. swim?" queried the friend with some interest. '' No-ci, she can't." wns the reply,, " She tried and tried to learn, but somehow she didn't get the hang of it. She said she couldn't get the right kick, and J let her think that was the reason ; but the fact was "—and here he looked up at the house, and sank Irs voice to a hoarse aspiration—■ " the fact was she. couldn't keep her mouth shut long enough to take four

strokes before she'd have some silly remark to make, when kerwash—she'd swallow a whole wave and go plump to the bottom;" and the husband winked rapidly as the scene was recalled to mind, and he went into the house chuckling with pleasure. But bo hatl'nfc noticed a woman's face peering out of the curtains of a raised window. The acquaintance saw the front door open quickly, saw a hand reach and grasp the seaside boarder by the collar; saw the heels of that individual crack bis back as lie shot through the door which slammed behind his vanishing form heard a wild and stifled noise as of. a human body being hauled over a hat-rack and banged against a wall and heard a muffed voice like that of an enraged woman say. "Take (hat hack and I'll let you up you wall-eyed yahoo!" And the acquaintance with a countenance' .of wonder and alarm passed on bobbing iiis bend in a bewildered manner. •

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