BUNYAN LAYING "100 to 1."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5092, 27 October 1894, Page 3

BUNYAN LAYING "100 to 1."

Lord Uogebery having justified his po«---eeBsion of Ladas by a reference to Cromwell, "Dagonet" drags John Bunjran from his grave as quoui:^ <V.dn in a gambling spirit. "You remember," he eaya, " how Christian and Hopeful came to the little hill called Lucre, in which hill there wbb a silver mine, and Dflt»a?. who was there, called to Hopeful and Christian -■ to come and see the mine. But Christian objected. He said it was dangerous to go digging for silver in the hill of Lucre, and the following is the dialogue that ensue? ":— Then said Christian to Hopeful: Let ua not stir a step, but keep oh our way. Hopeful : I'll warrant you when By Ends comes up, if he has the same iii7Uatiou as we, he will turn in thither to see. Christian! No doubt thereof, but h.u principles lead him that way, and a hundred to one that ho dies there. The italics are mine, not Mr Banyan's, but I think I hare proved my case. I wonder if the Nonconformist comcienoe will oiuoh longer tolerate • Tba Pilflrrim'a Frogrots' w^o.n it discovers tb»ti Chn»tmn backs his fancy to the tune of a hundredto one on. None but the most recklMUL gambler would lay «aph oi(u uUuA^u^