Pass the Salt Please. tore's Yonng Dream; According to Scule.

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 63

Pass the Salt Please.

tore's Yonng Dream; According to Scule.

A remarkable conjuress has, says an Indian | paper, been distinguishing herself. According j to the account the lady in question has been : performing miracles, the most remarkable j feature of them being that they are firmly beJiovetl by the people whd retail the story. II is said that a certain Bengalee, being hard ■up. uppl.pd to her for money, and she at onco agreed to i^ivo him 10 rupees if he could produce one. Thid he did, and received 10 from out of iho handful of flu >v "he hastily picked up from the load. He p'tfecl the 11 rupee 3 care-fully m his purre, but, on leaching home, Ire found the entire 11 missing. A rorrebpondiug ifrident ocounixl to a eimplo bearer, on wlu.'u she beilowed five in Addition to one rupee ho pos£C--becl. He •wrapped tho ?ix carefully in his loin cloth, but on reaching home found thorn gono, which ho considered so dishonest that he informed the i police that he had been swindled. The woman was therefore arrested and haled before a magistrate (name not stated), who questioned her. She denied any swindling or wish to j swindle, and said they might lockiher up if j they liked, but they could not keep her free ] spirit caged. The magistrate suggested that, i any way, the -experiment might bo tried ; and j ehe was accordingly locked up in a cell at the far end of a well-guarded corridor of cells. T?ho court went on with its usual business, and the conjuress was forgotten for a moment. Then occurred a curious thing — a sort of repetition, in Oriental fashion, of the " little jackdaw " business in the *' Jackdaw of Kheims." A quail came hopping into the courtroom — • .very tame quail, that ran about picking up imaginary grains here and there. Suddenly the litigants, pleaders, etc., becain conscious that the quail had disappeared, and that ? fine strapping man stood where the quail in d been a moment before. The court, noticing the stranger, a?ked who he might be, and received a startling answer. " I am the woman," said the man, " whom you locked up just now." "How can that be?" inquired the maglitrato, "when you aro a man?" " Noverthelese, I am the woman," was the et range reply, " and you may lock me up, too, if you like." Upon this a rush was made for the woman's cell, and although it was secured as tightly as bars, door, and lock could close it, it was tenantloss !

After that the woman, or the man, or whatever the combination called itself, was allowed to go in peace. This tale, according to our authority, is current just now among the native 3, nntl shows what extraordinary stories are credited by them.

BY THE AUTHOR OF " TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE-AY." The maid was fair, her pa was rich, The youth was poor; and so Ho sought her as tho gallant dear Pursues the timid Do. Upon his knees he said those things That lovers always say; And her bright eyes reflected Love's Reciprocating Re. His passion, co he said, was deep ] As the unmeasured eaa; ! The maiden coyly murmured, " Can j Such treasure be for Mi ? " This is so sudden, sir, but yet, As 'tis so —aak papa!" He winced. To great lengths he would go, But was not that to Fa? For pa's portentous toe loomed big;But, fired with alcohol, He went to brave that potent foot; She waved her para — Sol. They met, the lover and the too. He cannot show the scari In points of etiquette the youth Is so particu — La. So, spurned, ho roams the outer void; The maiden, where is she-? Immured in solitude, no more Her suitor shall she- Si. The Roman father chuckled soffc, Reflecting, " Well I know The rascal sighed not for my girl* His object was my Do! Ethel R. Penjamin, Barrister and Solicitor, Albert Buildings, Princes street, Dunedm (oppteite C.P.0.), has trust raoneyß to lend o-i Approved. aacuritj.-A.dTi