ROBERTS LITTLE ADWENTUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2379, 21 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

ROBERTS LITTLE ADWENTUR.

I flatterray sulfas I looks rorpa-ntick, pr that mine is exacly a pohetical purfessioii, but noone.newer. knowswot's a'going to happen.not afore it cums,-.nob. even a middlingaged Waiter; of else, praps if I -had I shoodn'tha, taken.out my best new silk humbrelletylasfc .To6'esday...iwas ;a week, wen; a going' to i ofishyate at a grand Dcjeunay. allar Fi)jirshot at fore o'clock-in the ■ hui;f nQu.j-; -. • /•.But so it was to'bej.and ; it. was, Wefl;, jHflt, Kf'fo.i'it" J-. aiTive j-it - .cuin/on for to jjqvft"dpain; put up my best sil 1c bumbrol 1 .itho', 11: :a~ imost.riod; % sjielter-i tny;--best'lcfose,, witch was noo alIso:;."Wpll,;wh.o shobd b'q a ataiidin Qf tlie dorn- of the •Otel's Grill' Roonvbut one of tho -worry prettiest and smilingegt young ladies? as even my eyes cum up'to the dove * she gaf o sitcli a. pittyful look at kr' nice-looicing <lres3,.' ai\d tlien'at rqy-nice-lopking hu-uibvelleiv and then at Me that it went quite to. my Hort, and I sed, sez I, without stopping a minnit to think .wot, I was about,' "Can I b.e;of;atiy:'uSe, Miss?" " Oh," she said, "if you; wood • only j".lt see nie ! to the hend.;* ! of the nex', street, I.shood be so miitoh hobliged?' " Like a bird, Miss;" says I, more pleased than I ought to ha been, but that's only human nntur, ewerything •seoma nicer the wronger it is, %■'.the

poet says, ■ " r Ave - as bad 1 - llteic wood 'ave it, who slioo.ll'see'but the full -blown,-wife of my buzzora a coiuing along the hother side of the. ;way; I ..Thererwaan'tttmomMitfto, Ipse* -so-1 Huuibreller back," and I cuts doWu the nex court and into the Othel like a rain dear and rushes up. stares. -,i cams ar sayi as how I was wauted, and aiy fust.glanceat that hadmiral woman's. feeturcs rewealed .the hole fatal secret, that I had bin seeirwith uiy fare companyont For wonce I was thrown hoff my gard and in anser- to the mild iuquiryj " Who was that young person," I sed . boldly; /one; of' my. neeces from "the coufntry.;' ' - •• j'; 1

-Furthei; remarks was stopt, by the. arriyalpf company, and my; .wifei guv me a letter sHe had brort - for me: and' went.;; ;.The blunders arid the muddles: and the upsets'.hs; I:.'made at ithat: there; Brekfast '■ I shall . never 'fofgftv -I was reghir: . I Hadn't ,done nothing apeshal.-rong if I'd ha'stuck'to the , truth, fiut tlien I - well that she" wopdn't have bieeved mo, .wherehas she mite beleeved my hinwenahun, .as I .appens ttf haVe, quite a shoal of - Neeces id thecountry. I ; was a puzzlm myself-to make up quite a lot. of other hinwensh.uns to suit the. fuaHvurij wen, to my intense'estonjshmOht 'I .was told) as a' bootyful yung Lady in a cab wanted to .see, mfyrand rushing down^'fetares'hedlong to see who it was, there was my ■morning's companion a larfing as usual, and she says, says she, " I've , brort back your butiful humbreller with many thanks," And then a brilliant thorfc flashed across my pore bewildered brano,;aud I says, says I, "Miss, I've got into sitch a hawful scrape by bain seen with you this morning." " Lor I what fun I" says she. " Tell me all about it."

So I told her. But the more I told her the more she'larfed, and ken saying " How awful jolly 1" ■' But," sez I, " what on airth am I to do 1"

.'!l kttow-," sez she.. -"If. yoir willtell; me,your: name and;address, I'll write' you a letter-of jihauks and sine it with your NtoVname;':- -Won't it bB jolly',to oitll'jou '-; Dear. Hunele' and say I .a.in'your.;-nffecshuniite Neece. By. the bye, .wot's niy name to be?" ; ..So I told'her.Sally Green j'und (hen she larfed more merrier thau ever, and aaid as that, wasn't a bit like her,name. Then she wroteiit all down, and then. She sed, " Now; Mr Robert, 1 ' says she, with her butiful, ■ musikal, /coaxcing wpice,: " you was' werry kind to im* .this. corning, and -havo made me'i wery merry'this'hfl'veriing; So as you-•havei-oldm«y6ur-name, I will tell 1 yo'u mine," "And she told uie and then slte secf, " Jfhever you want'to go to a certain Theatre-(as she-mentioned, |nit. •j.\yoa't),cum to the'. Stage -Dore and; harak for..moj and in you go like a bird !'• Good-by l" 'sttys, :shakin: handsj; 'quite friendly,; apd she drives off, j astonishment.' v,'.".-."-.. .:

.The amount-. : of ".charf- as I had'to stand that, hevening froin my ' brother 'Waiters was surathing hawful j but let them larf as., wins, says I, and I think upon the.holej as I was a. winner en that ewentful day. The letter cum all right tho nex mornin, and I have sinse availed myself of my kind Neeoe's (|) inwitashau to goto the Theater, free gratis, and have been introdoosed to sum of my bootyful Neece's (I) bootyful friends, of the same sects, aud they have many of em declared as I was a most emusing hild Buffer, whioh I bleeves is sum term; of theatrickle ondearment, and they hopes as thoy shall hoifen see me.] - Welf, uow for the morrul. I don't know' as .how 'I have dun anything ; werry • hswfulwicked, I "do j confess as that' I ; never can 'meetr the carm grayeyo of:my (leceivedspowse with quite the same; stedfast gaise as afore. —Robert.' •' -