OTAHUHU OBSERVANCES.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 348, 8 August 1885, Page 12

OTAHUHU OBSERVANCES.

A young lady (?) was seen to great advantage on Friday having a gallop on her favourite pony, while her poor mother was at the wash-tub, and her father was turning the mangle. Gferald Massey, in one of his poems, says : — • "When you see a devil in his eye, Just let that devil be.' But Gerald must be getting bolder now, or less wise. He has been trying to kill the ' old gentleman' — a good thing, Grerald, for you if you did. Fire into him harder next time, old boy. A young lady — no doubt a very jealous one — writes about a certain so-called belle of the' ball. She says, ' She was certainly a dancer, something after the style of a hen turkey on hot bricks, or a star-fish being fried in its own fat.' This shows how well young ladies love each other. O, woman I thy name is jealousy. A young mashee is seen very often parading the street by herself. Won't some Otahuhuian dude lend her an arm ? Polly had the toothache one day last week. Jim says 'it must be neuralgia.' 'No,' said Polly ; ' it is rue-ra'gia.' Why are infidels like a poor set of lawyers ? Because they have no case, and so tkey pray that there be no judgment. ' Where are you going, my pretty maid ?' ' 1 am goicg a shopping, sir,' she said. • And what to buy, sweet inaideu, true ?' • A puppy's collar, sir, for you !' The young lady who was lately on a visit to Otahuhu brought one heart with her, but took two back. The young Adonis is going to ask her for hers in return. It was a sight for the gods to watch that young couple with the umbrella during the storm on Friday. We counted 24 squeezes and 19 kisses ! G-et a larger umbrella ready for the next storm, Johnny !