A RAILWAY IDYL.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6535, 28 December 1887, Page 2

A RAILWAY IDYL.

Thank H*%ven, though pnblio iplrit and honorable o^nsiitency too eften dis« appear from public life, tnd leave their places to selfishness aal ha nhug, human nature never dies. It ii mere tndurlnf than the everlasting hills, and Itt uu*l« festatlnna are jiat as doU>htfot in the ▼ales of North O ego «• they are ia any other p«rt of ?he world, Indeed, no morw delicious exhibition of its por«aa(«t pervasiveness could b« see« anywhere) than thtt wtreS was presented to tbe idrairing jr'zi of pnumeers returataf from the Cay Baud's p'cnlo at Walanakarnt, by train on Monday evening. The eplsodn w« probibly only on* of many, only It was obviously mor« chart** t«'i««d by link* i aw*«tnan« and Mrm aimp!ietty than the other*. It happ«n«4 juat as the train w»i •'"•reing from th« O:«popo tucn»l. Corered carriages bainf ecarc», many of the pauengara of both 4-z«fl had to be contented with' rough s«at» ia open track*, «n4 thoae eiroam* s'inc?d t"a» htd nvarilly a rathtr tryiof ti<D« of it while the train was pisilnf throngh »ha uanal. Ihe heat was t«m«> what aaff icntlnsr, and the smoke from th» engine was supremely trying to tht ayes, T« mltleate the Utter eri! there waa a universal casing of the eyei. That, howev-r, woe not the only way In which fffliofad humanity endatrored %n fortify ics«lf s^ainit circamatano*. At Uaat ao it ■eemed to those who, when the train left the tunnel, began to open their eyes and wlpa their fvces, for everybody wasn't sufficinlly disengaged to think of these timely oper*tion«. There, (■ nne of the trooks at any rate, sat one h»PP7 youth and maiien, a«eb aged about eighteen, with their oorporeal eys stilt fact •hu* ; bat to jaige by the expression of pcttuie yum-yunaincsi en their faoes, g»sng with the eyes of th« spirt into their own unfathomable tnutnst blessedneti. There they sf side by side, etch with an arm about the other's neck. It was a swaett a'ght, pleasant to thota who unwittingly snpplieil it and to tboie wko most knowingly beheld it ; but " pleainret ar« like popples spread," aad the ir rep res* sible laughter of the onlookers at last compelled the happy lovers to rtallie that they were no longer in the tnnael, and that while their *yaa had been ahut thoeasMl of their fallow pasaengers had b«en wlie'^^ open. We hesitate to say that the moral of this pretty iooiden' is, that people of opposite sexes, seited si^e by aide, and with a strong mutual •t»ratrioa for cash other, should never lodulgft in an arm«to> neck embrace when passing through a railway tunnel ; but we think it exemplifies the advlla%blen*Ba of keeping at least one eye opeo duriag tbe pastime, no matter how aopl«sa<*ntiy ssaeky the taaael may be. Tbe happiness derived from the embrace thnald be more than sufficient to make up for the trouble) ciased by the smoke. But of oourse we speak theoretically, end l«av« the experl«»o«d in suoh matters to decide the point, which la obviously fmngbt with delloaoy, difficulty, and far-reaohing oonsecjaenee*.

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