USURPING A BUNK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 820, 27 June 1879, Page 2

USURPING A BUNK.

* The yarn below is from the pen of " Wild Honeycomb," of the fiubbo Dispatch : ; — "A certain learned davant — a great naturalist, and one who has been more than a thorn m the aides of the. museum trustees — was travelling not long ago ill the Northern districts.. [ He was on a scientfiic excursion, and he picked very many objects of interest to the naturalist. He at length had his holiday out; and one fine ntght saw him on board the Coonabara en rovte to Sydney. He picked out his bunk - ancT and placed m it all his valnabldflH the result of his researches. spent a couple of hours up ab^^fl and, when he felt sleepy, \^H |to his cabin, but judge astonishment to find that his claim been jumped. A son of Ahak, looked a troublesome * customer, i stretched full length. Angry w^H passed, but the savant could'not ob^H his place. ' Well, well,' said he, J^M suppose you must stop there ; butobl^H me by handing me my bag. 1 ' Wl^| bag?' asked the other. ' Why tH under your head. It cost me sot^H trouble to get them, and I don't waH them killed.' ' What's m the bag V ■ sinuated the other. 'Oh, nothing^H much consequence to you,' relpied <^H naturalist, 'only a beautiful specimen^H a new species of deaf adder, a tiger sn^H or two, and as pretty a whip-snake^H ever you set eyes. ' The occupant of |^H bunk looked such a look as man looksj^H once m his life. His hair stood on he uttered a yell as .harrowing as a Indian's on the war-path, and m steps he was out of the cabin, upl^H companion ladder, and on deck. He dieT not appear again dining the voyage, but the steward next morning related that m the small hours of the night a man with a haggard face and thick beads of perspiration on his brow appeared at his bedside, muttering incoherently something about snake-bites, and piteously asking for ammonia,"