Horrof!

Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 83

Horrof!

.. Tfc-^ivas » cKm-ch sociable,, and _!for tho ;" «ntertamhient; -and instruction" of Mrlie quests J\the committee- hacl .prepared some, slips of paper <©n wftich»wera-pritited ,a "word-puzzle— ". "thsfc- is,"* Jittle 'story -was "told, with -certain 'i.-worcls. 5 indicated 'by 'blanks..- The-- guests 'ffverc -expected,, to Tfill Jn 'the blanks -with ■the; -proper. 'words. 'and ;the--one succeeding. in>Jrue33ing 1 " nearest the total number of .Wdras correctly should Lave the prize. After tlte "sli£3 Md. been -filled they were read by . their -noMers. In r its piizzle"shape the slip l»re "like . this : "Near the -waters of the Mediterranean «. — i- old; man wearing a— = ragged ,coal

wasl -WajUing;, along ---the — — ; way. '- He was approached -by' a — r"nian 'v ho".asked fc-im, - ..'What -is your " '— nationality?' ' To -which th©-- old rman replied, \p and you -will -our.'"' 'Whereat the man," etc. v ■Most of the contestants iiad succeeded in ! filling the "bhinks so. that the anecdote read 1 pleasingly— somo-oT them were even:funnv; but 'the shocking - surprise of the "evening \ came when the young eon of the local : lheryman arose and read his effort. He \ waa -stopped after 'the -second -sentence, it 1 being evident that he .had nn f - thoroughly , .-.giasped -thd proposition. - He had replaced I .the 'blanks with -swear-words. I " , —