THE STORY OF AN ELOPEMENT, AND ITS SEQUEL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 76

THE STORY OF AN ELOPEMENT, AND ITS SEQUEL.

Blondel's letter on Awkward Ned's retirement arrived a week later than it should have done, and as explanation was sent to Dot by a post office clerk th*t «fae JetfceT h*& get in among th« newspapers and travelled back again to Cnristchurch. Here is BkmdeTs version of the incident: — I. A missive one® with the MSS. brand, Addressed to dear Dot in a schoolboy hand, Went missing, somehow, on the very day Dear Dot shou'd have got it, and went away To Christchurch,— To giddy Cbristchurcb, Though the way was long, And the weather hot. It eluded the comfort Of resting with Dot, And went to Christchurch. 11. The reapon the missive made such m&oo i Was falling in love with a wrapper blue; It had chanced in the office where The two mails met; and without a care Of the C.FM., hid itself in ai lold Of a witness, addressed in letters bold:; To Christchurch— To busy Christchureb. But they captured it there And brought it back, With an extra stamp In Indian b'ack — From Christchurch. THE SEQUEL. That manuscript wasn't a wilful elf:" I've fallen in love w:th the wrapper myself; Yet, acting as surely ji manuscript ought, It should have unheecung'y gone to Dot, Who, treat iri«j with kindness its shiny face, I Would have found for its love in the wrapped a place. And mayhap have sent it to Christchurch — To dusty Christchurch. That is. if a missive who'd learned! to know 1 How kind she wms. would have left her to .gtv To Christchurch BLONDEL.