AN UNPLEASANT BEDFELLOW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2503, 18 January 1887, Page 2

AN UNPLEASANT BEDFELLOW.

ws,k ago; J .having-lostjbis Jain,- li public-house where hel"&2'■•beei--Mri«/| bibing air' extra -dose of h\jUQr,%dJJ secured a-M for tliehight., ;A cantiiffl was'hauded' to hiiiiand he was directed 1 to his'jroom, but' s being somewhat " fuV'liis unsteadiness of gait jerked the candle out,,of its. sboket, and he .wasVthtfsleft mrdaikti'eas.' But he call for ; assistance,, fore He had .imbibed too many spirits.to. care for ghosts. So he Bt'uinbledbn' a bedroom—to.ugh":not toYownV- Doffing bis garmentßj Kegropad ;a,bout traocfißa. fully for the. 'bed, 1 but' found : that it already apjbpmmpliated another lodger, -who had'"plsaited Mmßelf,.right in the centre; and; as it seemed,to ; burboro, ■somewhat ;unreaspnai>lv monopolised more than bis share of! tli'e available ;'i^o:vp■^alaagt<M, ,, he exclaimed impatiently,- tyek :all the bedtaj^rsel;!^; r no-atiention'tb-'the remonstranoe'. Our west.coyrymanth'ereupon'wldresßed hint in- nibre?.^ergetio ;; ferms,vkd(? finally "pushed-him' along M"<?Si made forhimself a.plaoe. \But he felt'; 'that'his bedfellow was ; a more than' usually " cold subject." " Mon," eaidho, "ye'reiiaa.ca'ad as day; ye* feet's likeiceborgs!",' He continued to push Ms unpleasarttyqedfeliow along till the latter fettoufjof bed altogether. "There noo,"'. exclaimed our hero, "ye can lie tliere."' H& aopnfell Bound asleep. Next "mprning he was awakened by two stalwart men fum> bling with.the handle; of bis bedroom door, and then noisily'', entering with ft coffin, The indignant 1 corpse thereupon suddenly sat up, and wanted to know why he had-i'DMn.dieturbed; This was too muck for the two, joiners, who dropped the cbffinand fled. The; Bight of the coffin'remmded'"our hero of his bedfellow, He. looked over at him for a moment, and 'then, realised that his fellow was a corpse. He jumped out of bed hastily snatched , up his garments, and rushed from th e r house half dressed- to -complete his [ toilet under the.portifloof : the;,Central' Station. • His nerves ire'likely to remind him for; some to^6mS : blhi» • strange adventure and his-ghbfltly Bed* fellowj—Newcastle Chronicler -;•;' ' mwwM* iiiiii mill—ii ut -v ;>