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Show A WORD OF CAUTION.-The Adelaide (Australia) Punch tells the following story. "A lady friend who had lately arrived in the colony we speak of twenty years ago was walking through a timbered paddock near town, when from high in air she hears a hoarse voice: "Missis! Missis!" Terrified beyond measure, she scarcely dared move, but at length mustering courage she looked aloft, when her discomposure was complete, for perched on a lofty limb sat a noble savage decidedly slimly attired. The sable warrior, who was evidently tracking the gay possum to his native lair, seemed also a little troubled about something, for in a voice of anxious entreaty he called ‘I say, you, Missis, Missis, I say'-pointing to a dirty bundle at her feet-‘don't you go and touch them trousers, they's mine.'" |