Throwing The Cups.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3153, 14 March 1889, Page 3

Throwing The Cups.

Y- J!w"(ATrueWmhebbv'.StorvV y' ■ / Thereigu ofthocVaysofsnpetstitiou is .■jjSjmostftt acloso, 'Tho majority,of people , upon hearing some old legend or , au.iont belief rolattd, 1 at. onco say that it is nothing but an: 'l.old wife's Wo" and thus think no more about it. Tlioro is not to much faith i)6w-n-days'.placid in for- '; tunotello'B, nor is'fortnno telling as pus- ' v.-valent as it waa'some'joars ago; yet wo ;:■;,• still keep heating; of somo (crwnt girl :'•! being.'misled by ithese sorccrew who V .profor doing anything for a livelihood, ratherthan try to procure one in a honest and upright manner The following story, : however, is correct in overy detail. It must bo fully .half,,a century siuco that ..'•■■' terrible disease, the "small pox, made araid J,' "upon tho town of Wetherby, when I was commissioned by the then Vicav's wife (a •' ■ ■ lady whoso charity was unbounded) to deliver lo twonty-seven families some '.'■ nourishin'i food, which she was going to give to them. When I had finished ray : ; mission, the kind • old lady wished to give .■■ me somo remuneration for my trouble, but ' ■ as I declined to accept any.Uhoins'sted upon my taking tea in the servant's hall. ■>' After tea tho housemaid said to the cook, r, "Now, Joony, let, us thro* the cups," ;'|iiand as I was only,a boy and natnra'ly to known what thoy were abmt t > sA I was very alto tivo. Sho threw her fiisUnd declared no luck in it, .She then threw mire and said "Thon's . • luck, me lid." Sha then threw Jenny's, and osc'aimed " Pet the' hat and shawl on lass and malt haste or Johnny will be at door afore thoo gits there." Now Johnny was Jenny's lover, and as ] had to go home Iho Bimo way os Jonny, and the ■■ night being dark, I went with her. Just as wo turned the comer close !o tlie house where sho was going, sure enough there was Johnny knocking at the door. I t'icti went hoiu'o, and yon may be sup, after what I lrd witness d, became thoroughly ■ ■ convoked to the b liof of the cup busines'. Sometime after Jenny, the co -k, having left her situation oamo to stay at our honsn for a f.*rti-i ;ht. • Being a lively sort of a girl and full of necromancy, wo often had n bit of fun at the breakfast and tot tablo by her throwing tho oups. _ On the morning of her departure she said to me " As this is the list mo ning I (hall be . with you, we will thro* the enpj." She then threw mine with tho same result it had always been, " Good luck." Sho then . jAjtw Lerown cup and exclaimed 'Theie's lB!th in the cup, something will happen." I then took her lnggige to tho waggon she was going in to Bradford, and bid her " Good bye." About three weeki Inter, as wo wire having to> at homo, who should walk in but tho brother she had gone to stiy with, aud upon inquiring his business ■ ,he replied " 1 have got bad news. Poor is dead, and I've come io bid ymi to : her funeral at Kirkiiy Overblow." 'I was tho only o:ie, however, in our family who went to ins tho poor girl laid in her last resting pi ice, I never go now toKitkby Ovrt'lilow biitls'ay to look at her tomb, each timo recalling to miud her voids of prophecy.