HIS LODGE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 67, 8 July 1876, Page 2

HIS LODGE.

It got so at last that his wife began! wonder what-business "the lodge "b on hand that it. should meet four or fr nights per week." He was out fournigfe a week until eleven o'clock, and he csi home with redness in his eyes, was unsteady as he passed down' » hall. He said "the lodge"" business;* mighty hard on . the "muscjes, and t» candidates were coming in by M? dreds. One night he groaned out in » sleep and talked of " the right yelled out " spades !" and the wife ** dereel still more. The other evening •£ took a position where she could see ** went up stairs into the lodge-rooms, p husband passed by and entered a pi* 1 where rows of bottles adorn the sheW and coffee and spice stand in a saucer" the counter to purify the breath. "J* she went in he was one of four at Each one of the four was looking at "* pictures on some cards hold in his han* " So this is the lodgers it i" she » quired, as she stood beforeshim. . He was caught, and he ijjgcfeed to nwj a clean breast of it. ~BM0 i & his ca*j down, rose up and arm ** said: - >•' %'Jjg£l . A " I won't lie to youj; J the lodge-room—this . is, where 'to stop J a minute to beat the enemies of out of their surplus greenbacks !" I come home that shawl you spoSe'-of!"- , The regularity witlfwhich that J»* now hangs around home every ev the week is Astonishing.—"Detroit™ Press." t °\ '■'