AN EXCITED WARRIOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 1340, 4 August 1877, Page 4

AN EXCITED WARRIOR.

Taking five newspaper war-maps under one arm and a copy of the Daily Times under the other, Mr White left the office, and proceeded directly homeward, feeling more patriotic every moment. " Oh ! we're going to lay 'em right out, Nancy !" he said, as he dropped hia hat in the.halL " Did you order the flour V* she asked, in a careless tone. " Flour ? What do I care about flour J The Russians have got Kara and half of the Turkish army !" " Have, eh 1 Well, I hope that paperhanger will be here in the morning. You didn't think to see about " " Right here is Kara, and right here is where the Turks got mauled !" ho exclaimed, as he knelt on the floor and traced one of the mans. " Did, eh 1 Say, John, can't you rake off the lawn this morning ; and did you see about the whitewashing ?" " Will you talk about whitewashing when all Europe is convulsed with war ?" he fiercely demanded as he shook the other four maps at her. "I — I'd like those onion-beds marked out to-day,'* she replied. " Onion-beds marked out, when this very copy of the Paily Times editorially

; predicts that a million armed men will be rushing at each other's throats in less than 60 days !" There was a dead silence until his finger rested on the city of Erzeroum, when he shouted — " Here she is ! Right around here is where they are making the Turks howl for sugar !" "By the way, John," she softly remarked, as she looked up, " don't you think that summer kitchen will have to be reshingled this spring 1" The girl who does general housework says he tore the five war maps into 500 pieces, and banged the Daily Times against the wall with an awful thump as he jumped out of doors ; but girls are sometimes prejudiced. Mr "White was in the corner grocery at half-past 11, saying to the proprietor — "Don't it make your blood jump as you read of the European situation ?" And the proprietor raked the cheeseknife on the edge of the counter to clean it, and replied — "Seems like I shall haf to kill dose poys who cut soap mit dis knife." How can you expect anybody but a warrior to feel as warriors do t