FLEEING EDITORS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 305, 27 November 1883, Page 2

FLEEING EDITORS.

: J"to T;fifiir^piTOß OF THE STANDARD.] ' Sjfß,— Asrthere is a demand just now for storie^qf^eeing editors, I will give It occur i*etl m Poxton some t>yoyears;^j|go.i ; The lociiL .e'ditoir Kid been assailing a Jocal medico, and naturtimid when one day h^-^^hjs-ifoe-^approaching. What anded to his alarm he perceived that the-inedico had,-^ stick in^Jiis hand. Th| editor's guilpi Conscienc|caußed him to anticipate an as'sault,antl straightway he bolted for ..the. conrt, where he lodged an rnformation against ; the medico, for " shaking a stick at him." What made matters more amusing was that it came ou,t m. evidence, that the alleged } " aesault*'' which' ! it wagT'^epb^a-placed the jirosecutor m "bodily fear," the alleged i aß^BailajjitSwas fully 50 yards off! It afterwards turned out that as the editor " travelled," a bookmaker who hqfypenetLtp be (T jn Fo?cton though^ he was an athletic m tmihiDg',' antV hd i^rali ; after fhim. to ascertain his name, weight, /; age, Ac. Hearing the footsteps the fleeing editor glanced round, and seeing b£s, pursuer was gaining on him, he put on a spurt just as he reaoned'^he friehaly' üßheltei* of the Court House, and sank ..gasping on a chair. The sequel I will i giYe_yo;u another day.. 7 lt is as pathetic as this is ludicrous, and will show how the man who " shook the stick" which mSTd^thie editor quake ijnd flee, ; after- ( Var^K^eap^d coals- of fire onf-his-^oußg; fiiepds head, — of course, I mean m a scriptural sense. The sight of that - fleein^-jediiiori with IcSoat^tails flying m the 5 br'eeise^iis feoggieVto'wing behind by three yards of elastic, his curly locks all dishevelled,, his .eyes, (and such eyee^ 'tli'6 naiighiy voting man*!) starting>&ortv >his-'hfead;i-and his rapid cockatoo stiide, with the bookmaker pell-mell after him; Jnidi.'.fltt- JnVtthoj distance^ # th^.v^miiiwd surveying the strango spectacle, v^oVrned J a ; picture that a local knight of ~ltfo bru^h immortalized by committing to ctmVasa. < a 'teariyi ? has that episode, elicited when told m his "styte by a well kuown Foxton sport, — -.now alas no more. I am &c, 5 -.-r 'r, • -a-- .■ r^ The Wing