A SWEETHEART WITH A GLASS EYE.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 42, 24 May 1907, Page 7

A SWEETHEART WITH A GLASS EYE.

A young lady friend of our acquain-i lance has recently received a shock, Among her extensive male acquaintances there is a blue-eyed youth. He goes much into society, and is a hot favourite among the nicer sex because of his eyes. Mack I one of them; is glass ; but there is no need, as he says, for everyone to know that, and really it seems so much the counterpart of the other that not one in a hundred would detect it. On this occasion he escorted the young lady in question to a refreshment room. As they were taking tea and coffee he looked unutterable things at her, when all of a sudden she gave vent to a startled exclamation. 1 Tor eyes fixed on his with a mysterious intentness and horror. A fly had settled in the centre of his glass eye, and remained there—he, of course, unconscious of its presence. The sight of that eye looking at her with a fly on it and the owner making no attempt to brush it off was too much for his companion. It overpowered her, and she shudders when she recalls the circumstance.