OUR TRAWL NET.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12406, 23 November 1908, Page 1

OUR TRAWL NET.

At tha riuish of t!>o Melb/ume Ouo race an oxcite.l individual sung out t> n gp'irMng ma i : " Wnat about your tip no?, uIJ miD, and your sysL'inl inFirm>ti-in. and all that? Y.r-i'M s.ipims d to know uveryfching, anM 1 know n-stinn?, y-t I win £250 ovnr Lord NjUh.' : The L>ud and vi.uiitin!,' stylo was a rr.ct.ical mistik=. Me sfntild )>nva knO'.vn his :,ii.i hi'.tcor. Wits cold satire, yet l-.u i oriOiiKh for ev9ryoin »ho bad •l's.'vr ! thfj ;rvi=rcr to c'.tt!t 1.h.-. re;)!y, Ho ml-!. ''Yes! It o-Uy proves tho tru--!: c-t t^H old naying. that; tbc :,'i-o.i ! fv... lojla l3;r;o t Li '■>■ ,'i-jawsi; hici'. '" Tba otb«r riay .1 lifct'i gi:l. was overheard valuing to her .ii»!l\ wiieti abo SJin "Vousin, chiloiv.n. Arlam was ii man all alon". and r-as-vt-ry !o::ely. so Gotl put hiui to sl«rp, took nia b-aics out, tnd uiido a nicf lady of ttL'in. " T!jo other day the mistress of a certain lioasi ciisccvcrod that a moiMfl hid ffjfc into ftio iJ.mr fa-.rrel: S*)e at odco suramnnsd ;i mznsoTvant to get a gun, cnll tbc i!f;,<,', and Station himself at a convynitn? flistaoce. Tben sho clamuuv.l bfili'-'.Vity upstairs, and conmieiKcJ to pun.-U tLo flour barrel with a clothes prop. Presently, tbe uiDUse initic v ity appearancp, and started Derosa the floor. Tho dog at or.ca .vent in pursuit. Tbe man fi od, and tho dig fell dead, and the lady fainted and fell downstairs, and t'tn vain, thinking that sbo was killed, and fearing that he would I o arrested for murder, ran off and haa net been aeen since. Tha only one who did not suffer was the mo«s?. Captain Pritcbard, jit tbe record breaking Miuretania, told a group of Americans on a rfC!»nt voyage that a 9ailor's life was w hard one. "It is cot so hard as ife used to oe i before the coining of steam." he Isaid. "but it is still fearfully hard i 'fa? all tbst. In fact. 1 never hea»d - iof but one man who bad a decent joi-ciiss f.-.r gaing to sea." _ tj. "Acd who was he, captain?" oaid '■ n 'Jhierigoirvrc. 'i "fsouh," tbe captain*' BDS*ered ."For if the old fellow had remained • o i! shore lie . would have been ' drowned" M ; ; ■•-■-•