EDITOR'S WALLET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 49

EDITOR'S WALLET.

11 Eat or Die." A certain Highland lord, whose name we need not menf ion, on one occasion went into a ploughman's both} on his own estatp, disguised as a beggar, and asked for alms, sayiug he whs cold and hungry. The ploughman, who had jnsb finished his sapper of oatmeal broee and, milk, at once proceeded to cook a bowl or cupful of brose for the quondam beggar. This his lordship begun to eat, but after a few mouthf uli gave it up, ranch to the disgust of the honest ploughman, who seized & big cudgel, ftnd going up to his lordship threatened to kcoik hid braii.s out if he did not eat the whole cupful, remarking at the same time that his guest, to be a beggar, was rather "nice" in his tastes. His lordship saw the man was determined, and after a fearful ttruggle he gulped down the la*t spoonful. He was then nearly kicked oub for his nicety. Loni never revealed his identity, and used often to remark that he never could sse this ploughman without a cold shudder passing through him as he remembtred his struggle with the "cup of brose," and the talPfigure of tbe ploughman standing over him iv an attitude which Bf emed without aoy doubt to Bay, 44 Eat or die."