lie Found Him.

Tuapeka Times, Volume 26, Issue 157, 26 January 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)

lie Found Him.

A man on horseback rode no to a ■wirylookiugold farmer, engaged in* laying a raflfence, and asked : "Know a man round here named Twaldle ?" " Wot's his fust name," asked the farmer, <' John or Bill V '•I don't exactly know," \va3 the reply. " But he'sa regular old skinflint and a to<is'u customer, whatever his name is ; and such a fearful liar I doubt if he can tell the truth about his own name. 1 was told to just ask £or the meanest man in this country, and i anybody'd point me right to this old Twadi die's house. Let's see, I've got his full name | written on an old envelope — it's Bill — yes, j Bill Twaddle — John's his brother, I guess." " An 1 I'm Bill !"said the old man, a bard, cold glitter in his eyes, aa he whistled to a couple o£ bulldogs lying under a tree, and Bent a fence-rail whizzing past the stranger's head. He escaped with his life, after Bill and the dogs had chased him six miles.