THE "KOOING" KINNIBURGHS.

NZ Truth, Issue 571, 27 May 1916, Page 5

THE "KOOING" KINNIBURGHS.

A Wifa wh> Wouldn't. This is the story of Herbert Ives Colebrook Kinniburgh (pronounce this Klnniburrow— like ! Edinburgh). Ho waa attacked by the microbe of lovo some limo previous to the year 190 C. IClsle Christiansen happened to be suffering from the same complaint at the same time and matrimony supervened upon the attack mentioned and they became one. The result of this synthesis was one ordinary citizen (or to use the squatter adtv't. oC pre-war days, encumbrance), THE SUN OF . HOLy MAT. did not xhlne with tropical Hplendor m the Kinniburgh firmament for more than one yen r, however, for, m 1900, A.D.. Elsie absquatulated and became lnvlKlblft m tho iTmtrimoninl heavens. For Home time she and Horble had not regarded the bond as being; a tie happy with love ho »he went to Taihape and was regarded as a very deslrnblo cit. m that city of mud and buttock-loams. That was m Ausw»t or the year mentioned. But Elalo told Horblo that she had only prone for a trip or else ho would not nave sanctioned the extended ab»qnco. He ««nt her a "Umifcr" to trip back with as had only gone to see If nor faculty! for affection would flourliih and linprovo under the serene skies <>f Mudvillf. Six long woary month:* posted between the first and Kennel ehaptor of the story and then Kittle took pen and' paper and awked Ilerblo to try and forget her. He had sold up tho "'apuy. 'appy" by this time, but he fi.rwnrdeil a tenner to tho argosy <.f his llrst love. Alfts! Aloa! Elsie un«l tlu* note proved to be like the^ old Konjr, "The Ship that Never Rotujcned." She came not baclf. .' Ju«t here' lt i» only fair lo mention thut the servlcoH of a Kenlleman named Mr. 11. -R O'Leury were obtained unJ he ndvlsod a certain line of action which resulted m Merblo appearing before lilh Honor Mr. JuHticc Hosklnß. on .Saturday ltißt. Un to ilils time It watt alleged thul IUIhIo hnd formed a frt'Hh Alllrincc of unholy mat', and this uecosMtutcd the appcamncc of THI2 ORI3A(r DIVORCE SPECIALIST, Mr. T. M. Wllford, who appeared on behalf of the co« respondent. At the last moment it was discovered that the co-re, was immaculate and as sinless «« next year's crop of unborn virgins. ho hi» name docs not appear m thlH romance. H natuntUy follows tlmt Klale was ditto. Well, to go on with the story, Horble reckoned that he would put n now. wle-w<«m logcthcr it J-Jlole could stund the .strain of n. second Hpusm of holy mat. lie went to Mudvllle to gftl thp chjld. but Elnle proml«ed Mm tliat if he- took the child away from her that "sh© would go to- tho dos*." Not wlflhlng to hoc hl« orntwhlle lovo proceed In the direction of the canine*, he deslnted. An Interval of two yonm pmu>t>d here whiln the nu» dlt'nco goes out tiind ha« a. highball. Th«»n ho again beheld Klhlqj? UeautcouK form, but It wan KOH A FLEETING INSTANT ONLY. und ho hud not observed her around the Remise* «lt>ce. lkilk'Mil Arthur IClnnlhurgh (burrow, mind you) currobr>rnt«ul tho wliolf of hl« bruthor'i* «tol"y. Ho wan v dairy fft<,'tory manxiger and hl« brother hud luM-n Htaylnjc with him. ho wan thu» hble to giv<> a lr«io and corn>c( «(u(t<mom of Vhc dcAri'iton (on which ih« Sea wu« then pa»ed). Mo had no«n * letter m wrleh Kino had written te Btritaadla which she reckoned that

nothing he could say or do would ever induce her, to return. Then commenced the' last chapter, which was by the horse-haired individual on the Bench and he wrote it m his Ram's Book of Fate. It read, "Decree nisi, to be made absolute m three months." "What about the child?" asked his Honor. Mr. Wllford: ; The mother has CUSTODY OF THE CHILD and it would be unfair to disturb it aifter nine years. . > : His- .Honor: : Very well. then. I'll make "a note, "No application for custody by the father and no application for maintenance by the mother." Herbert, who is a member of the 13th ; Reinforcements, will be free to bestow vhis affections' in a direction where they may be better appreciated m three months' time.