TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10599, 20 February 1896, Page 5

TANTALISING EXPERIENCES.

Some very curious answers would doubtless be received by an enterprising editor who should offir a prizs for " tho moat tantalising experience" sent in by hiß subscribers. _ . It is at least open to argument whether it is worse to have a good dinner served and no appetite, or to have a magnificent appetite and no dinner forthcoming. In America quite recently some 30,000 people had assembled to see an inter-university football match. The teams were well matched, and a tcost exciting game ensued. Among the roadside assembly were a large and varied collection of beggars, soms blind, some deaf and dumb, and some crippled. The crowd bad pnssad inside the enclosure, and the shouts of the olub partieans gradually became too much for the deaf aud dumb, who scaled the fence abd added their plaudits to those of the spectators.; this tantalised the I cripples to snch au extent that they discarded their crutches and climbed alongside of their comrades, and then might have been seen the edifying spectacle often " blind " beggars with one eye each glued to the cracks in the fence! But even this instance gives way before the ! following " tantaliser" : —A passenger in an j English express traia—no other occupints— I two hours before the next stoppag,;—a packet i of Indian Chief Cigarettes—no''mitches, and i an inaccessible bright light in tbe lamp over- | head.

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