A TERRIBLE OMISSION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1951, 3 October 1889, Page 1

A TERRIBLE OMISSION.

There is a fishing village in the Wellington district, says the New Zealand Mail, much frequented by anglers of every degree. And the denizens of the place love to receive visitors, and provide entertainment for their “innards,” and reap much profit therefrom. And at ©no of these model places of resort two gentlemanlylooking dogs, yet plain withal,- and affable, happened to dropped in. A gentlemanly-looking dog had dropped in before them. And one of the twain bowed to the good dame of the place and asked if she could oblige them with a glass of milk. Couldn’t she, that’s all, and the milk was produced and some scones, and just put down on the table without any waste of ceremony. And the twain fell to, while the third looked on approvingly. And while, Dougal Dalgetty-like, they 1 were attacking the “ provender,” the dame plied them with questions. And the one of the twain who was a sort of leader replied that he had recently come to the colony, and was looking about him seeing things, and he liked the colony muchly, and the ways of the people, and their milk and scones, and hoped their was good fishing about. And then the twain went their way. And the third G.L.D. looked curiously at the dame and asked her if she knew who her visitors were. Not she, indeed; but they seemed very nice and civil spoken. “Ah ! ” laughingly replied the other, “ that’s our new Governor and his aide-de-camp,’’ | “ What, Governor,” she almost 1 screamed, “And I never put the l cloth on the table I ”