THE P.D. AGAIN.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 6

THE P.D. AGAIN.

The Otago Daily Times of Saturday last has verily ' scooped the cake.' It publishes a glowing article on the renowned beautiful sisters, the Ladies Seymour. After dilating on their countless personal charms, it goes on as follows : — These sisters were as accomplished in mine as they were beautiful in person. They were famous, we are told, for their learning even in an age when young: ladies were not ashamed to study the classical writers of santiquity, and to imitate their style in prose and verse. Thus we ai>-told by Mr. Gt. Ballard, in his ' Memoirs ':— Prairies of Dakota and Montana, where they once wandered in thousands, not a single one is not to be found. The only remnants of these mighty herds that once thronged the north-west are a few hundred animals scattered in the vicinity of woody Mountain, across the line in British Manitoba. Last year a herd of about seventy-five thonsand were corralled in the forks of the Little Missouri, on the south side of the Yellow River ; but they were rounded up by the Gros Ventres and Crows, who attempted to drive them on their reservations before the white hunters could get a shot at them.' Why the white hunters should want to shoot the Misses Seymour, we don't know and we can only regret that they were successful in destroying so many of them. Nevertheless, those truly 'happy hunting grounds' should still afford considerable inducement to the longing bachelors of New Zealand to try their luck at ' coralling ' one or two of the few hundreds left. An entire staff is bookad by the next 'Frisco Mail for Dakota. Any surplus Seymours will be frozen and sent home unless otherwise disposed of on the spot. Orders for beautiful Miss Seymours, alive or dead, should be sent in at once.