AN UNINVITED GUEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 83, 15 April 1913, Page 6

AN UNINVITED GUEST.

An uninvited visitor gave an unpleasant surprise to a farmer at The Levels, near TimaiTu, a few days ago. The farmer went home in tiie evening, and found his house occupied by a small, gaunt, elderly man, with a dark tanned skin and Assyrian countenance, and his chin adorned by a small tuft of whiskers. His surprise must have been startling when lie found his uninvited guest seated comfortably before the fire with his boots, off, betraying bare feet, and enjoying the flavour of the fragrant weed. The kitchen’-fire in the house was like a roaring furnace, the work of the placid gentleman enjoying its unusual warmth. A leg of mutton was cooking merrily in the oven, a pot of stew, including numerous delicacies, from which floated a very mixed odour, •was steaming vigorously on the stove, 1 and on the table wore eggs, flour, and other commodities, requisite to toe making of a palatable pudding. On the floor, not far away, was a bundle , of children’s dresses and trumpery articles obtained from various quarters of the abode over which the collector has reigned for a number of hours supreme—monarch of all he surveyed. The burglar admitted to a- skill in cookery equal to that of a French chef. He had broken into the house levering the dooi open with a spade; and his adventure cost him a fine of £5, which he was allowed to avoid if he wished by going to prison for two months.