Miss Blinker Scored

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 60

Miss Blinker Scored

" That Bliuker girl is hateful," said the girl with the suoburub nose.

" She ia," assented the girl in the alpine hat; "but bow"

"Bow did I find it out?" said the girl with the sunburnt nose. " Well, the way I came to grief with her waa this : We decided to give a ghost party at our last birthday kickup."

"Some old sheet and pillow-case affair, 1 suppose ? "

" Nothing of the kind. You all sit in a dark room and tell ghosb etories in turn. The person who tells the mosb blood-curdling one gets the prize. Of course, the incidents are all supposed to bare happened to you personally.

"Of course, I wanted to create a good impression, especially as Harry was there that week and that Blinker girl was fairly haunting his footsteps. Somehow I couldn'6 manage to think or even dream of a good one, thouah I ate a supper of Wels-h rarebit on purx^ose. Finally, the very day of th« party I wont to see my laundress about my dress — we were all to wear white, you know. To my joy, I fouud on her" mantelpiece an old, dog-eared book of ghost stories. I borrowed it at once, and took it home in triumph. " Well, you were ia luck ! " " I thought so then. Well, that evening I

told one of the stories — of course, making myself the heroine.

" It was a' great success, and I felt that the prize was .mine, when tbat Blinker girl stopped talking to Harry, and began to applaud.

" Then she said : ' Oh, how delightful. And did it really happen to you ? ' " ' Of course it did,' 1 said.

*' * How perfectly charming ! ' she cried. • My old nurse used to tell me that story when I was a very little girl, and I shall always enjoy it so much more now that I kuow you are the heroine ! " „