KEEPING HIS PLACE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4162, 23 August 1881, Page 3

KEEPING HIS PLACE.

" You know Jonoa," ?iid Rogers 5 " confound him, I don't bilino li.? curee for T-olhio'. Oaco lio won';yicJ:tii:jj wish up, und vhile wo wa9 all admirin' tho fea and tha Hconery, them ho sot and ro!. on tho edgo of tho hoat with hie legs over, readin' a look, and didn't sreui to cam for nothin', and tho(;a*B went up to him and talked to him, in.d ull they could grt; ov.[, wp.s :\ ' yes ' or a I :<o,' till they piva it up 1:3 v hid jo!^. All oC II sudden there eunio on a. nqualL :md the boat shj gave a lurch, and before wo knowod what had happoni ! he'd been pitched overboard info tho wol«'t*, and whon wo fiphod him out, would you b.liovo it, he had hi* thumb on the place where he'd otoppod reading when he down."

Whito outer walls that reflect the pun like mirrors, embattled towers, yellow and green cupola*, arahejqup roilineo, ™in.how-co!o»rp(l c> untiiv, ' it.h li).* i-.V'i. : 'i^>' . i:m\.i>:ii. ;jo some of the *mo points of ttio j>ala?e of Mo-hammod-el-Sadoko, ]?ey of Tunis, which ie a wonder of Moorish architecture.

As a hoj, it is ssid that G*i ■• l iotta wai a noisy chatter-box, shor. nndetoul, and co lazy that hfl Tcmaincd far tw \enre in the lovpgt claps in school, though another authority dooWfß lio wns a wonderful Latin soholar.

Among tho roinn at a nunii«triatic talo v.% London re"rntly, belonging to Mr -HalbtH vi Young, of hcc, Kent, n penny of .Alfred brougJit over £15, and & two-shilling picco of Cromwell Bold for £25.