CHAPTEE V.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1870, 13 February 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

CHAPTEE V.

Tn the meantime McGinness's daughter, Aramita, having arrived at the ega of budding, blooming womanhood, rosy and stout, is was thought by her parental parent to be wtsooni to take ber ont of soak from her uncle where she bad been residing since her dear dams demise, and utilize her aff- ctione ana ber ser ices, by placing her under the vcatchful guidance and tender, maternal care of her prospective st< p mother.

The daughter had judc arrove from Cragsviile, and waa in the act of cordially greeting and oonsoling ber impecunious parentp,when tne widow Perkins, without the formality of an announcement, stealthily open the door of the pdlacious parlor and was a solemn, route and indignant witness to the apparently undignified greeting of her affianoed with a strange woman.

McGmness saw tho long shadow of her loDg, gaunt form as she crossed the threshhold, and instantly recognising it, hastily arose to introduce her. Instantly two lips met. They were the uppsr and under lipß of the widow Perkins. Mao did not even have time to make explanations before he was completely annihilated with one tei\ swoop, by the clenched, outer extremity of her unerring dexter limb.

The daughter, overwhelmed by this sudden and unexpected disaster, shrunk into infinitesimal nothingness, and she and her convivial parent are now bob-nobbing with the as gels.