This is John the immaculate, who is about to spend a short holiday in the country. 2. At the station he is seen off by his own dear Angelina, and who. as she was her lily hand in adieu, promises to meet him on his return. 3. He arrives. and finds that country living while generous, is scarcely formal 4. Next morning Inquiries for hot water are met with. "Hot water! What for? Shave! Oh nobody ever shaves here." He however manages to shave himself with raid water. 5. Consequently he is late for breakfast, but still enough remains. 6. After a days’ experience he does not dress for dinner, and lets informal costume vie with abnormal appetite. 7. Better drop into country ways thinks John next morning when confronted with more cold water shaving and does so. 8. A week later; time to go home; think Ill go back smelling a little of the country, nice and fresh: surprise em a little in town. 9. But the dust of a long train Journey does not usually Improve one’s beauty and John did surprise ’em a little in town, with the result that Angelina doesn’t see in the variegated tramp, who tries to impose himself on her as her best boy, the expected and immaculate John. The latter insisting on recognition is forthwith given in charge; and so farewell.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XXVI, 29 December 1900, Page 1213

This is John the immaculate, who is about to spend a short holiday in the country. 2. At the station he is seen off by his own dear Angelina, and who. as she was her lily hand in adieu, promises to meet him on his return. 3. He arrives. and finds that country living while generous, is scarcely formal 4. Next morning Inquiries for hot water are met with. "Hot water! What for? Shave! Oh nobody ever shaves here." He however manages to shave himself with raid water. 5. Consequently he is late for breakfast, but still enough remains. 6. After a days’ experience he does not dress for dinner, and lets informal costume vie with abnormal appetite. 7. Better drop into country ways thinks John next morning when confronted with more cold water shaving and does so. 8. A week later; time to go home; think Ill go back smelling a little of the country, nice and fresh: surprise em a little in town. 9. But the dust of a long train Journey does not usually Improve one’s beauty and John did surprise ’em a little in town, with the result that Angelina doesn’t see in the variegated tramp, who tries to impose himself on her as her best boy, the expected and immaculate John. The latter insisting on recognition is forthwith given in charge; and so farewell.