LOVER’S ADVENTURE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3431, 24 January 1912, Page 8

LOVER’S ADVENTURE.

We are not': reading the “Canterbury Tales.” The story comes straight from Morlaix, a very modern place in Brittany. Our Romeo, like Chaucer’s hero, was caught in the chimney. He was going to his sweetheart, instead of running away from her. The protty Juliette was a distance of some seven miles from his home.. The enamored Romeo tramped it bn foot all that distance. At night lie reached tho house, and called, but got no answer. As the door was shut lie decided to try the roof. On the roof he found the chimney, and it seemed to him that it was quite wide enough to let him down. He descended for some distance, but then, as lie came near the fireplace, the chimney narrowed. He slipped and got in a narrow neck. Here he was caught, unable to move up or down. Before long he felt a suffocating sensation. If tlie thing lasted much longer it would be the end of him. He could stand it no more. After groaning he yelled, and he bellowed so well that not only was his sweetheart disturbed in her slumbers, but the whole village was excited.

The nearest chimney-sweep was called, but he could not lielp him out. The gendarmes woke up the Mayor, and he, with all the notables of the place went to look. They consulted among them, and the onl yway to liberate the captive and the only way to liberate the captive lover was to pull down part of the chimney. This was done by some masons, and he was presently released, but before being allowed his freedom a police report was drawn up, with a view to inflecting a series of fines for breaking, into a private enclosure, damaging other .people’s- property, waking up the authorities unnecessarily, and causing a public scandal. Poor Romeo was very sad when, it was all over.