ROYAL COMPANY.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3943, 12 July 1918, Page 4

ROYAL COMPANY.

In the smoking-room a group of members had gathered round one. who had j.UvSt returned from an extensive. and expensive tour round the-, world. He was describing some of the wonders he had seen, and had held them spellbound as he dwelt on the

wonders of th

Magellan Straits, the

_ Pacific Islards. and various othv:r j^^places that bad impressed themselves his, memsry. { ontjyg^ay home," hr sai<s, '•I had'iSehoM of playing Ikirlgc with the King. , That,-*^oo, was s wonderful experience in its way." A mar^who had been dozinff in the coiner c'.urir-ff the whole narrative, suddenly wolre uy : "Pooh! That's nothing-!" he sand. ''I once played with four king"3 !"

"Did you really?" asked the other wre.-isfWl'-. <:Aikl who wore they, pray:"! "TV Vmg of hearts, spades, clubs, and r'i"-o"ds! Incidental]1 '„ there were nl-.o ■<*v~nl nuenns present!"

A world in v.iiirh thero were no labours to !>"• HceoirnilU'iied* no burdens to bo borne, no f-torma to be prtdured. would be a world without true for. honest pleasure 01 noble aspiration It would bo a .fools' paradise-