VERY, VERY LATE.
Brown had come homo very late one night, after a convivial evening at a smoking concert, and had consumed more cigars and refreshment than was good for him. It was midnight before Brown reached home, but he did not know it. "Ah," be muttered, ' if the church clock would ouly strike, I should know the time. It's too dark to see."
But, hark! just as he spoke the clock began to strike. Breathlessly Brown counted :
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve!" But at that moment another clock began : "Thirteen," counted Brown, "fourteen, fifteen (Great Scott!), sixteen, seventeen, eighteen (gracious!), nineteen, twenty ( !!.), twenty-one, twentytwo (!!!), twenty-three (mercy on us!), t\vonty-four"( !!!)." Mopping his streaming brow, he exclaimed: "My word, I've never boon so late iv my life !"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8943, 18 December 1907, Page 3
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133VERY, VERY LATE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8943, 18 December 1907, Page 3
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