THE LATE BURGLARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3082, 16 April 1892, Page 2

THE LATE BURGLARY.

It having become known to our local police that I was in Hamilton on Sunday evening. I have been closely questioned whether I saw anybody or heard anything suspicious or unusual there on that day. Not feeling disposed to say much to the constable lest it might be " brought up in evidence against me," yet I don't mind telling you Sir, that I did see something unusual " in Hamilton on Sunday afternoon, and which very nearly (but happily did not) end in very serious consequences. Well, Sir, I arrived there about 1.15 p.m., and whether I came North or South is immaterial; but I rode into the first hotel stable yard I came to, and as there was no groom at the stables, nor a living sonl to be seen about, I knocked at tho kitchen door, where I saw a young lady who informed me that she didn't know if there was a groom about. Sha referred to an old lady whom I presumed to bo the cook, and asked her if she knew where the groom .vas. No, she didn't, perhaps he is upstuii*. Upon this I led my horse into the stable, passing other horses in their stalls, and when near the farther end, which by the way had no end—but an open space—there bounded to my feet and right under my horse's nose, one of the most horribly ugly and disgusting monsters ever bred in the heart of Africa ! He jumped in and out, rattling his long chain on the iron roof of his kennel, and on the stable floor, and so frightened my horse that he suddenly leaped round, knocked off my hat into the dirt, and became so unmanageable that the only reaort I had, to escape being trampled under my own of the other horses' feet was to bolt as fast as I could run out into the yard, and my terrified horse after me, which I quickly mounted and rode off. The moral I would fain teach by the foregoing in the interest of the travelling public is, that if certain hot'ilkeepers desire to avoid frightening their customers they shouldjhurry up and drown their monkey. A Tuavellek.