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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 428, 21 July 1904, Page 2

Tough fowls will be as tender aa chickeßß if they are steamed for several hoars, Serve with white or paralej sauce, It was a snowy windy night, and Private Mulony en guard quickly got chilled, The snow drifted into his sentry box nntil iB sheer desperation he moved that rude shelter to ft eloping position in the lee of a buttress of the. Wall. From a locker nt the foot of ths flagstaff he abstracted a large Union Jack, and wrapping this round him, he crept into the box, and tried to make himself comfortable. The time seemed dreadfully long, and presently Mulony dozed off to sleep, to be awakened later by a flash of a lantern in hiß eyes, and, looking up, he found the visiting rounds and the sergeant ejeiug him with astonishment. ' Wbat'a the meaning of this ?' demadned the ofteer, sternly, but Mulony did not disturb himself. ' Shure,' he replied, * I thought ye'd left me to freese to death so fer convenience I jaat laid myself out in this ould coffin, and bedad ye can plase yerself about callis* out the firing party and going oa wid the i unesal.*