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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 7 May 1908, Page 38

saw it topple over and lie q,uietly on the stones for a moment. -Then a puff of wind raised it and sent it wheeling along at an increased speed." ' ' At- la-st the hat ran into the -curbstone near a corner street ' lamp, and with a pounce he was upon it. All flushed and breathless, he picked it up, aud then leaned against the lamp-post to * r,est. A man, also flushed and breathless, came running up and took the hat out of his. hands. ' I'm much obliged ' said he. 1 For what'? ' 4 This Is my hat.' ' Where's mine, 'thenT' • Hanging behind you at the end of a string.' Then the well-dressed young man remembered that, for safety, he h a d put on a hat-guard that afternoon.