TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2080, 5 November 1885, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU GOSSIP.

In my helplessness, caused by the draith of new-, I tin n to in ittcu fmthei afield for .something to ** " about, (inching luuiniut "New Chum," who classically lushing into print and f.urio— for abuse makes the paity tibusod famous 01— iteady my galloping pen, add not a icid liot citidct to tlio heap of smoiddcimg iiiiil-i .ihcuiy on " chummy's " head, beautifully pouiti.ij •>, tlie " I'iekwickian" doings of tho might}' Xiiuiodim di-.CJples who, w 1 1 1 1 pluck, r<»-Hits», perspiration, and gaiteis awiy, follow, cither too closely —so tlio hound--, .say —01 too ri»tiivingly — so the "eh i]> that goes lound with tho "hat" s.iy-*, thf Pakurangi Harriot. By sd doing lie has di-cnveiud and stmed up a hoinets nest th.it stingrth him viciously in tho upughteoiis vindication of its— ngut.itnely spu.ikm,; bo it unduistoiid— piouusi in the luintni; held. " N'eiv Chum, " old hoi»e, in fioliu-< >'n • > jniin^, winch you will, yon m join ui'»|i 1 ion td lTipetuo-ity >ciatched rei.!vli"-i'\ . \'o 11 1 .toiilMn wm-, i pie Mime, to 1 i'm 1 ni ' iiiii" liy scratching the hunting pt o,i!i i s link*, but 111 yoin mno cent U'ldaiiiv, foi n itfiil of .ViteiJiiib Waid'i ad \ic*, \ <u lonelily ias|»ed ovei the ulcuroi!-. MH nf pnd , \,ij, ty and .ill the other " b).nii\ ' em, iti. ■.•-., wiiiih nubli, in.ii), expect illy so .\h n «.i 1 huiiruijj hoist's back, allots no 0.11 1 L 1L 1 nn'.i: bit liun^elf "Old Identity" bnJvd .t ji"»' "bit and bndoon ; ' you leim-il mm 11 > ton tight, but pei lmps he w as only piaitiuiu£ for hi» linal lnuknifj when the ''ol.l 111 111 with the rtC%tho ' lopc-J Inm, puts tlie t.ieklo aniJ c.iseisliam on him, and haula him, "willy I nilly," to tlie land wlauo the "lcptH tinndii*," no — I mean tlie li.ue— can nibble 1 tho clover and sit on its tail in peace. The other follow with a long " fpondoe-daetyl '' uinuitig 1 Latin name blows hi» hunting horn by winding a ditty about hi» Pytchley, (^llOl n, (^in*en's andCniragh e\)ieuencus wl)ich causes 1110 to buiot into "hoicks" and thus e\plode— How me tho mighty one-> fallen, when they have to illume their pieseut donkey, that i-<, humble state of life by the glimmer of the glow nig memory of then foimer thoioughbied, that in, aristociatic state of existence. Of hunters I am 0110 of the chiefest. I hunt for aln mg day affter day, and s-ometime- don't find oue, tli.it is 0110 of the tin tie and venison aud wine I had 111 my fathei's hall with the " dessi>i t" of love that mm rounded it. The foregoing "entimont is "chucked" in for luck, 011 the "goody-goody " piinciple, I once rode to hoimdd in tho "giand old countiy," but tho hoi so I bestrode was guaiauteed to take particular caic of me, and he took me safely and sobeily tluough the highw.iys and byeway-s and gateways of English nceneiy, giving me glimpses of tho hounds nnd led coats occasionally. And didn't I blow at the dinner, Oh, no ! Once in my adolescent fo jlislino-ts, when homo ladies, mounted on noble looking thnroughbied horsea, that divided the beholder's adtniiation fot tho equine bjauty they possessed, and the dixmely human beauty they Heemed no proud of buanng on thuir b.ickh, vveie looking .it mo aud my "|iddlo lioadud nng." I, 111 my conceited idiocy, put the "old 'un " at a Chcbhna l# j «i/.oi -cup." He cantered at it beautifully, find faceiningly gatheiod lnm&elf together to take it, but somehow ho stopped suddenly at tho ditch, and I took it instead. The ladies applauded the exploit with humiliating laughter — humiliating for mo you know — and tho "old ho»>s" sciutched his ear with hid hind hoof. I Htaited to take "Kew Chum's" pa-it, but v\lmi an old liuutsiiian gets on tho "Tally hoi" racket he foigets even his dearest fiiend in the leddeinng iominiscenses of youthful foyInmting glory, nnd tlio kindly intentions that prompted 0110 to take tho weaker side vanish, as tho figures do that the little schoolboy rubs off his alate. JJILLT,