WHAT THE SLIP OF A CORK DID.
A httle boj wm carrying a bottle of ginger pop down the street the other day, when suddenly the cork popped out tad popped him in the north eye. He yelled to vigorously that a small crowd toon collected around him. Two carpenter* at work on the next block, in their anxiety to see what the excitement wm about, fell out of the second storey window on to a peanut stand beneath. Then two women fainted, one of whom suddenly disappeared in an adjaoeot coal oellar. Three small boys shouted " fire," and a man with a long ladder on his shoulder, hearing their cries, turned around suddenly, and after overturning an apple woman amid the demoralising ruSi of her wares, the end of the ladder demolished » plate-glaM window, and finally settled iUelf on an old gentleman's worst corn. Then a fas old rlady bad an eye gouged oat by an umbrella^ and a Dutchman and Irishman, after excitedly endeavouring to explain to each other the cause of it all, got into a fight and rolled recklessly into the) cutter. Bfr this time seren policemen, headed by two fire engines, came upon the scene, and arrested nine innocent lookers-on. This had the effect of dispersing the crowd, most of whom to this hour haven't the remotest idea of whit it was all about anyhow.
WHAT THE SLIP OF A CORK DID.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 2431, 7 January 1876, Page 3
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