PROPHECY FULFILLED.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 43, 24 October 1891, Page 524

PROPHECY FULFILLED.

Between sixty-five and seventy years from. the present time, when Sir Frederick Pollock was a boy in St. Paul’s School, London, he drew upon himself the displeasure of Dr. Roberts, the somewhat irascible headmaster of the school, who frankly told Sir Frederick’s father, ‘ Sir, you’ll live to see that boy of yours hanged.’ Years afterwards, when the boy of whom this dismal prophecy was made had distinguished himself at Cambridge and the bar, Dr. Roberts, meeting Sir Frederick’s mother in society, overwhelmed her with congratulations upon her son’s success, and fortunately oblivious of his former misunderstanding with his former pupil, concluded his polite speeches by saying, ‘ Ah, madam ! I always said he’d fill an elevated situation.’

Choi.i.y Litewaite (member of the Hightone Athletic Association) : ‘ Aw, I thay, doctah, I’m tewwibly afwaid there’th thomething the matter with my arm. , I’ve been exerthitliing with the Indian clubth for about thix months, and there’th a gweat lump on my fore arm. Do you—can it be an—an abtheth ?’ Doctor (feeling his arm): ‘My dear young man, I really ’ ('holly : ‘ Oh, what, for pity’th sake ?’ Doctor (gravely) : * I really believe you’re actually getting a little muscle.’