Curious Story.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2975, 13 August 1888, Page 2

Curious Story.

Let us change the subject, however: hear" Veritas" (save 'the mark) and his friend Colonel H at it &g4fc, Fact is stranger than fiction, they sayyS and if you know any factstrangerthan, this latest by """Veritas,", why, send as, I was ajoout to,-, write • ypii a; good's yaeh, Cdfpnel-fl'-~ strolled into -my r. '.sitting-room,Wd; selecting; the most':•; Icoihfbrtable cliair, up in fibht'of the fire and sat "down in itj';? placing his muddy boots on the mantle-;?:' piece.: Noticing ;\v6re'a(hamond| ringthad never^seeti •teed t0; admire it,,and that led-to : : the % following.' remarkablestory:—'Yaas/''. I the; Sunday.; school teachers;who rim Sl'S.' aoroß3' ; f thecaimwl, jvhiro. I resigned my.posi--,: tidn; as'engineer of the iristitutidnV,' But I guess I tipn't often wear; it ;'.' itV;' fits sorter loose oh.the finger and soon .;■ slips off. ; Why,! oncejost itfor 'six months, and recovered it iu aj ourious;way.: I'd telL'you': the but I guess you would' call.. tarnation liar, Yew'< wont here goes.. I was out on the; Ppwcwjic river one fall—guess it mustfefiveflk six years since now—and while pac£ ■■ dliug across one of the deepest parts ): my ring slipped off and dropped into the water. You bet I was mad, and. fur six months I mourned fur that : ring as lost. Waal, I'd pretty nearly ' forgotten about it, when, one day the following spring, I was out fishinV ami I came on the track of a mighty ■ big pickerel. I baited. With a. frog's leg. and went for him;; he swallered the bait instanter, audi jerked him, out, but I was too late; I nearly got him over the bank whon he disgorged, the bait and dropped back.intoi the:'■; water. I was just goin'' to make another oast for him, when it appeared to me there was something on the ■. hook that glittered more'n a frog's : leg. I drew it in, and yew bet I was struck all of a heap when 1 found it;: was my lost ring,': Ouriua, isn't it ? . I never catohed that pickerel, but I:. care a darn, fur I got my ring back anyhow. You' haven't got & quid o r chawing tobaccer about yoßp have you, have you ?"■' No, I havei* you dirty scamp. ■■■'.., ; ' •'•■''',.• _'/';■