After Many Years

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 28 March 1907, Page 9

After Many Years

Now you see him ;• and now— pht !— he's gone with ,the clicif. and squeak of a Jack-in-the-Box. We refer, of course, to the ' Romish ' priest who " accidentally ' discovered ' a Bible (' a new book to him ')," read it, and forthwith, renounced ' Popery ' and 'became a ' Christian '. • For a long time past he, has been ' lost or mislaid, stolen or strayed '. But now he has (so- an Auckland religious monthly tells us) materialised once more. As usual, he . has reappeared in a happy land, far, far away— this time in Bohemia.- And— again as usual — he is a sort of ' chimaera tibmt>inans in vacu*b '. He has no name, no history, and no address— no signboard, no label, no father, no mother, no home, no country. Or if he hasp these are dark secrets which the narrator cautiously keeps to. himself — entre soi et soi-meme. 'Spec's he just growed, like Topsy — or (vastly more probably) ' growed ' like the story of the Fakenham G-host. At " any rate, the word ' Fake ' seems written, very large across the tale.