AN IRREGULAR PROFILE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 107, 24 August 1876, Page 3

AN IRREGULAR PROFILE.

In an article in the l>,'irn', Mv. Julian Hawthorne, writing of duels between ♦ ferraan students, says : "Once bo was present at a nttfabf© drtet between two renowned f<"tustsrs£'att>l ('>v a \,\tiLf time the advatufcagji wan on neither nidi;. ' N"c cut had"£b«;eEi given : if was fuiired that their sfcijil would prove toymiff nut—that there wmtd be no htood. .fust then, however* Tritz appeared suddenly to- grow an fchch taller ; his wrist (!.xiit:nil'i:«l itsolf admirably—ah ." Karl wa» hili, So true- and wag the btnw that .fOlrl himself knew not at drat that hs was ori.-reome : only when he went to apeak, nnft the blood poured into hi* mouth, did hi! become aware of it. A snongo wa,i the blood -vrip'jit away, xhea to '. ' K;U - I hod TV> end'of his none. t>U lisibfr llot-.t ' where is then the nose which Kart !ins lout / Alt. swu'uh-for it—it is stilt in v.'iin- — fchu. nose has disappeared! Then cries out of it sudden Fritz, the dg .' the dog.' Potz tauser.d Ponuerwetter I to.'k oiiui) at the dog. One sees the dog make liluni cough, with something in his month-. Dim runs to him, catch him, pound Mm on. the back, lift hiiu by thy tail autl shake. Ach !' to, at last tho iu'»», tho poor nose, the end of the nose which Karl in'ul lost. Then Karl take* that end and sticks it to his face—to the root, you see.' ' VeS," we exclaim, breathlessly, seeing the narrator pause ; 'wed, did it grow mt ittddn T 'Put surely yes. For seven <l&ys it is held continually on; and then i.vtftu bandage removed, and the nose is whole- once more. Put alas ! an uulookedfor rnissfatl has occurred.' 'How so V 'fa the haste of replacing that tost end. Hie poor Karl has it npsiib down applied '. ft ftt now too fate to- .alter —so grows it to this day. Karl was before a handsome man I he is stilt the (Jeist the vivacity ; but the profile—one finds it irregular.' "