TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10083, 19 March 1896, Page 6

TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

Some v?ry curious answers would doubtless be received by an enterprising editor who should offer a prize for " the most tantalising experience" sent in by his subscribers. It is at least epen to argument whether it 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 30,000 people had assembled to see an inter-univer-sity football match. The teams were well matched, and a most exciting game ensued. Among the roadside assembly were a large pnd varied collection of beggars, some blind, some deaf and dumb, and some crippled. The crowd had passed inside the enclosure, and the shoots 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 the cripples to such an extent that they discarded their cratches 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 in the fence! But even this instance gives way before the following tantalissrA passenger in an English express tram—no oilier occupauts— two hours before ih< next stoppage-a packet . 'of Indian Chief Cigarettes—no match#?. ,ud an inaccessible bright light in the lamp jtrerhttd I . - r !