TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10131, 14 May 1896, Page 6

TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

Some very curious answers would doubtless be received by an enterprisiug editor who should offer a prize fer " the most tantalising experience" sent in by his subscribers. It is at least open to argument whether it is worse to have a good dinner served and no appetite, or to have a magnifioent appetite and no dinner forthcomingIn America quite recently some 30,000 people had assembled to see an inter-univer-sity football match. The teams were well matched, and & most exciting game ensu Among the roadside assembly were a large and varied collection of beggars, soma 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 the cripples to such an extent that they discarded their crutches and climbed alongside of their comrades, arid then might have been seen the edifying spectacle of ten " blind" beggars with one eye each glued to the cracks in the f« BCel ... . ... But even this instance gives way before the followiig"tanttliser:"-A passenuer in an English express train—no omer occupantstwo hours before the next stoppage—a packet of Indian . Chief Cigarettes-no matches, and an inaccessible bright-light in the lamp overhead 1