A Travelling Bachelor.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3024, 9 October 1888, Page 2

A Travelling Bachelor.

3 The proverbial fussiness of travell- ( ing spinsters is hero capped by a tr'a-. s veiling (let us hopeand trait) bacho< I lor! ,Tho other day a middle-aged I gentleman travelling on the line from Euston to Crowe put his head out of | a, first-class carnage window, and p called out to the guard, ,r Bo sure you let mo out atEugby," All right, sir," ' was the response. At the next ftopp. ' ing-place, however, the muffled-tip head of tho gentleman appeared through thMarrjage. window, fwjli] inquiry, ''(juarft is this Rugbyf VNo, : Sir." was tho reply;. f'biit t will'ie siiro to tell you when we got there;" M content with this- assurance, at every stopping-place of the' yery"slo| train the head appeared at- the -wirit. dbw, and the poor guard's patiehpe and temper were sorely taxed. At longth the gentleman was overtaken, by profound slumber, and the guard, to his horror; just as the- train was moving out of the Bugby Station, ro'. collected that ho had fqrgottep fo warn his troublesoroo passepeor. In an inataut ho Bignalle4 to the enginedriver, and the train was backed alongside tho platform! Qui" sprang tho guard, rushed in brcathiess hasip to the .gentleman's pompartmentj seized his rug and traps, and with a "Now, sir; boquickl the train is just; moving." was in; the act of bustling, him du,t of the slecply tpues came/'the '■',■ rejolner',i '!6uard r what dp' you ;sm : . by I|:bis| conduct?• I did not say that J wisjjpd :to aligjit '$ E^gby,-1 ouly : >isl4'ed;to.-sspertain T ' our arrival at the station, aa my) -dopr tor had informed Jmeijirit'tJjO tiraeltfel had. arrived thdreiwoukUsbovlliei: proper time for guai'tl.-f-Dorotliy, in tbe Echo:

;p§ ' : y '■• jlfflie'Maifiioijtor who ebooked ??.'°? al ; B pafd of Guardians by ask!f»'t6mvo;tliobodies of W'pau'peflpaiiaeiVovorto him bonofit of ;^¥^W*ny'to-day'tlmt he 'We.the application; If the Durham flMdiaugaroouly 'lmlf as careful ww, tlio; living bodies of their Butt's they nro jealous about tho Uegnty of th e i r corpsos, tho Durham (prkboiiSß must juclude many more >»fotts than a:o usually found in I qii'ito under indignation owed no to tho conI[«™birpl,ifonceitgot abroad pt pbat-ihbrtcm examinations were ttia|detl to tho attractions of'• the —?W ,; rlhe difficulty of gotting istittltfl persons' to enter that ostab'peht,; would bo indefinitely iWeased, with a corresponding npnentationof the cost, of "Our iue/." In the days of tlio "rosuriotion men," jfcn tho difllculties irown in the vflfnf medical studits obtaining the 'Wets" ncces«y to enable them 'to acquire the »y rudiments of their profession iused tho churchyards to be ibbed of their contonts in 'der that the tables of tlio dissectinglorn might be furnished, an old Glas)w parson boasted that "ho would rt care though whistles were nrndo ' his bonos after he was dead if ho ily was well cared for while living." ut uia stoicism di'l not proveut liim aying Btriot injunotions 'at bis death iat his grave should be covered with slab of stonejriivy onough to defy 16 efforts. m fifty "Burkes and lares." AndTk aelingthus betrayed almost co-oxttiisivowith humanity, tis especially strong in tho case of norant people. But it is not, lereforo despy»M> of haying no res-" JCtpaia iiitMk tho contrary, I feeling—u ngering sense of tho sanctity which itached to the humau body in the riy ages-of Christianity, and ono bioh is especially entitled to deferice in the case of paupers. Why lould the fow comforts which roraain K such unfortunate persons be neu■alised by the horror of a material Bstiny which usod to bo reserved for Malefactors only ?