MISS TENNANT'S MODEL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3574, 30 July 1890, Page 2

MISS TENNANT'S MODEL.

A TTniq.u9 OuMaotor'Hotai up oa a ■ . London street. ■ ... '

One day when seeking a model, - says tbe Chicago Eero.U, Miss Teunant discovered a likely subject in the crossing sweeper, and, while conducting him to her-home nearby at Bichmond terrace, within a stone's f-S throw of the house .Of Parliament, she met her family's ;old friend,' Mr Gladstone, - Greatly amused at her companion, the Grand Old Man exclaimed: " Who's your friend ?'' Then and thero the orossing-sweeper, muoh to bis dismay, was presented to the "People's William." - ; ' On entering the Tennant mansion this urchin .was tremendously .impressed by the liveried man who had - opened'the door,-and after looking $£ ' back at him several times whispered <'<': mysteriously to bis kind hostess: " I say, miss.why does your, big brother we'ar brass buttons ?•". Always thoughtful, Miss Tennant firstled'her' cbargejo the servants' t hall, where she sat beside him as he.- : played havoc with the well-filled i dishes placed before him, At the ' conclusion of his repast, Miss Ten- , nant asked the boy bow he liked it. " Proper I" replied the crossingf sweeper. "Yer mother do oook ) prime." Many were the- passages traversed.. |5 before reaching the servants, hall—a fact that made a deep impression ~,. 3 upon tho model that was to be, who : : : £ i. at last said - " flow many rooms yer d got?" 8 On being told the unbelieving a gamin retorted: "Gar'n.yerkiddin 1 . s (Goto —you're guying." . "How many rooms have you, U inquired Miss Tennant?" s "Two." ut " And how many are there in your family?" < . a 'There's eight o' us. There's

father an' mother an' the two girls one room, an' me an' brother Bill an' '-Ifgranny an'tho pup in t'other,"