A PROSE IDYLL OF TAUWHARE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2090, 28 November 1885, Page 3

A PROSE IDYLL OF TAUWHARE.

THET*mvhareHotelMiat present tcnantle,,—without a landlord. The knock of the traveller, thirsty and footam-p, re-echoes through the night, unhoard and unrosponded to. The neighbours— or neighbour more correctly— complain of the gentle, constant, ghostly tappings of the thirsty souls crying f»rtn in tho angimh of their disappointment like the banihee in tho twilight. A few night* ago two youthful gen•lemen, musical and hilarious in the last dm ing a pair of horses blowing at the nosp, and stumbling with exhiuition, desirous of re-.uscitn.tuig their exhausted energies, pulled up in front of this mho* pit.iblc Inmtelry. Applying their knuckles I to tho door they beat th.it chaiining melody ' known ns the devil's tatoo for a period of fully five minutes, when, their hands getting tirod, they continued with the toes of their boots, but with no better result. The landlord and his firmly, they com lud. d, niii't bo exceedingly somnolent, .md having peltetl the windows as a last resource, fiey r. t red to the lack o the piemi-'es to try their luck inth.it quarter. Success at last crowned their effort*, but not perh.ip* in the direction they nought. Their appeals for admission had been heard by a plump old gentleman of the bovine creation whose slumbers they had dis turbod and who hearing, them in the mid«t of their devotion* came up to nee what was the matter. Turning the corner rathei unexpectedly be tnok thn travellers by surprise and in the rear at tho «arne tune, impelling them to an effort of »j<ecd which resulted rather unpleasantly for nil concerned. One of tho party in his eagerness to got out of the way dropped down a sink instead, and tho other w.is hooked up, like an unlucky gallium, in a barbed wire fence. Finding their way back to the front of the houso they weie just in time to .see their horse* doing a heat up the fl.it, mid coining kp w ith them uoiiio time after, they found orses and conveyance all of .1 heap in a ditch, out of winch they e\ti.ictul thorn with considerable difficulty, when, tlnrstv and disgusted with the unh ipp> turn which thn romance had Uken, they once nmro took their spats and proceeded on their road to Hamilton.