WHAT THE SLIP OF A CORK DID.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 79, 22 July 1876, Page 3

WHAT THE SLIP OF A CORK DID.

A little boy was carrying a bottlfs of down the street t\\~ i.th»-t* dty, suddenly the cork pop: ft ■ ■■:;: and P»>ps>-d him in the north eye. H•• yH-?» sv vigorously that a small crowd :■»•-»«•. . »'• lected aronnd lum. Two carjienter.-i at work on the next block, in their anxiety to see what the excitement was about, fell oat of the second storey window on to a peanafc stand beneath. Then two women fainted, one of whom suddenly disappeared in an adjacent cnal cellar. Three small boys shouted "tire," and a man with a long ladder on his shoulder, hearing their cries, turned round suddenly, and after overturning an apptewoman amid the demoralising ruin of her wares, the end of the ladder demolished a plate-glass window, and finally settled it3elf on an old gentleman's worst corn. Then a fat old lady had an eye gonged out by an umbrella, and a Dutchman and an Irishman, alter excitedly endeavouring to explain to each other the ca,use of it all, got into a fight, and rolled reck Wly into the gutter. Jiy this time seven policemen, headed by two fire-engines, came upon the scene, and arrested nine innocent lookera-on. This had the etfect of dispersing the crowd, most of whom to this hour haven't the remotest idea of what it was all about anyhow.—"Danbnry News."