Mrs Chugwater"s Observations.

Otago Witness, Issue 2665, 12 April 1905, Page 77

Mrs Chugwater"s Observations.

Mr Chugwater got interested in astronomy ' not long ago, and bought a good-sized telescope, which he mounted in the cupola of his house, and for several weeks interested himself in making observations of the starspangled heavens. In the course of time he got tired of this pastume, however, and one evening, after he had announced that he would make no more observations, Mrs Chugwater said s he would go up and make a few observations on her own account. She had been up on the roof rather more than an hour, when she came downstairs, ' her face radiant with success. i "Well," asked Mr Chugwater, "did you make any observations?" | ! "Did I?" she replied. "Well, I should just think I did." "I suppose you have made some important discoveries?" he suggested, sarcastically. " That's just what I have," said she. "For instance?'* he queried. " Well, Mr and Mrs Brown are having an awful vow in their dining room." _ So tha-t was her way of making observations, was it ? "Anything else?" he asked. - j " Yes, Jack Barnstable is out walking with that horrid grass widow Tompkins (you need never invite him here again). Milly | Jones .must be engaged to Charley Oliver, j for they are sitting in her back garden, and he has his arm around her waist and is kissing her" (they live at the other end' of the town). "Old Mr Skinflint is trimming his fence to save cightcenpence, and doing it in the dark so that no one will see him. Mary Marks went down to the post office and met Joe Harris there, and went for a walk with him, although her father has forbidden her having anything to do with him; Mrs Black's washing is still out, and it is going to rain; the Swifts have gono over to the Bakers' and are playing cards, although Mrs Swift told me only yesterday ', ■ that she would never speak to Mrs Baker igain, and " But Mr Chug-water had vanished.