COBLEIGH ON THE MOVE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 80, 24 July 1876, Page 3

COBLEIGH ON THE MOVE.

Mr. Cobleigh moved on the first of May. were going through NVirth-street when jvu met liim with, the insignia of the act irnpun him,. viz. :—a looking-glass, clock, ami lump. If we had suddenly discovered <w own family moving, we could not have hwm more astonished. He had lived in tlln house whence he was moving for at luasfc y«ars. He set the lamp on a funcu, and propped the clock and loukinggliwtt against the same. " Von art" surprised to see me at this !" ho said, with an anxious look, admitted as mnt'k " £ little expected it at one time myself." »nd he sighed drearily. " Any trouble with the landlord I" Kb, no. " " With tile house, then I" * '' Oh, no ; good landlord and good litrnae." " ¥ousee,"he went on, "abontsix months ■'"<'> onu of those chaps who believe in a Hwies of sudden and unexpected judgment days—Second Advent they call r em —movutt in next door (where Parker used live). ftt< was a strong Second AdH'ntist, and so was his wife." '' But why should their peculiar re"Siims belief make you dissatisfied with y' lir home P we ventured to inquire. " Why," he ejaculated, staring hard at " 8 : " But, then, you don't know anyabout it. You never lived next door tl| iH«cond Adventiat, perhaps I" ';>'ot that we can remember." '' You'd remember it if yon had," he f&plied with significant emphasis, " I'll "''•visr forget uiy experience. That family !j ofc 0 fc acquainted with us, and then it had revelations. First, they borrowed a "Wle sugar, and then a little tea, and then •'little saleratus, and then this and then •'U that.. They said the world was going 1 burned u|v in two weeks, and they ' '"Tit, fuel like going to the exper.a; of : cs«ttiug a barrel of sugar when eternity J'w so clone, and wouldn't we kt them '• w e a wnall teactipful ( Then two days ? « that they came in and said that owing «e immediate approach of the end of » wuriip they didn t think it advisable to a ton of saleratus, and wouldn't we m loaa them a cupful I

" He'd got that notion bored right into hi* skull, and all ho could see was clouds of glory, and angels, ami hnrps, and xny *»g»r, and saleratus, "and the lik. By ♦»eorge I it got to be awful. I C:*tn fell you. : !>,t_v in and day out that fell v. . >i- <»"■" > f hi* folks, was repairing ih«w? duds or going for my groceries, .ts-.-t if. did »w as if I'd go tnad, and get up a judgment day on my own hook. *• He got my axe '>ne day, with a lot of the same fo> and while he w; a using it the handle broke, and the blade went down the well. He came over right away, to see if I had another axe. And when I told him that I hadn't, and I didn't know how I was to get along without that 0112, I'm blamed if he didn't want me to borrow one from some of the neighbours, so that lie could finish the little job he was at. He said there was no use me I buying a new axe with the crack of doom I staring us in the face. I was mad though, : about the axe, as mad as I could be, and j ; I told him if he didn't get liie a new axe I'd bust him in pieces with the right arm of the law. And what do you suppose he said I—why, that he'd go home and pray for me ! And now what cotikl I do with such a chap as that I There was no use in getting mad, and you couldn't reason him out of the foolishness. And he wouldn't move, and the day of judgment showed no signs rjf being in earnest. So there I was. Tlie only thing I could do j, was to get away, and I've bir d a house at | the other end of tlie town, and I'm moving there. And now, added our unfortunate i friend, steadying the looking-glass and clock under his arms while he grasped the lamp, '* I've got where there is a gaol on one aide of me and a graveyard on the other, and I don't care a darn how many i Second Adveutists move in on either ; side."