TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9977, 14 November 1895, Page 3

TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

Some very curious answers would doubtlesi be received by an enterprising editor who should offer a prize for " toe most tantalising experience" sent iu by his subscribers. It is at least open to argument whether id is worse to have a good dinner served and no appetite, or to have a magnificent appetite and no dinner forthcoming In America quite recently some dO.UUU people had assembled to see an inter-univer-sity football match. The teams were well matched, atd a most exciting game ensued. Among the roadside assembly were a large and varied collection of beggars, some blind, some deaf and dumb, and some crippled. The crowd had passed inside the enclosure, and the shouts of the club partisans gradually became too much for the deaf and dumb, who scaled the fence and added their plaudits to those of the spectators; this tantalised tho cripples to such an extent that they discarded their crutches and climbed alongside of their comrades, and then might have been seen the edifying spectacle of ten " blind" beggars with one eye each glued to the cracks iu the fence! .~• '\ >>.'' ''*/'<.' -'■ .1' But even this instance gives way before the following " tantaliser:"—A passenger in an English express train—no* other occupants—two hours before the next stoppage—& packet of Indian' Chief Cigarettes—novmatchea, and an inaccessible brjght light in the lamp IVertiwU "*'•:- ?-\ .'■■':; ls>:M