TURNING THE TABLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 188, 24 December 1881, Page 2

TURNING THE TABLES.

I have heard a good story,, and as it t* not only perfectly true, but has never seen printers* ink, I rescue it from: oblivion by givins your ten thousand : readers the benefit of its publicity. There- • was acertaitt paper man hailing from the South who paid a visit ta the Empire i City, and being wise m his generation he* thought he would combine profit and! 1 pleasure. With thi&emT inhaew-he paid! a visit to all the hotels^ and, made a point to ask if he could look at tbe Southerly} In many houses they did not take it, but m most they had never heard? jofifr. "What not take the Scneecher ? Why how could you exist without itf? : Why the Screechet? is, or should be to» every colonist what the Ikmdbn Time* i& to John Bulli— meatvdrfek, washing, aadj lodging 1 *;, m- some canes- tbe ruse wai> successful, and a promise was made that; \t should be written, fdr and ordered;. Butt a Nemesis was on hi» track. Unfortu«- --; for himself he had the temerity to try hi* little game; obi when, having' friendly a B; and S. wfth tbe propriietor of another rag.. His rival stood it for a time, but patience- . has its limit, and Blow waa horrified tfr hear his friend exclaim, " Oh, what's the good of talkingy.old fellow; you know your.paper is not a patch on mine." Well, such» deception should have a fitting punish-. -ment, and he was. bound to come to grief;, and he has. Two, weeks since he was* 'sent: \Q\ —^lfarliament,. and be now is* branded; with the letters, M.H.B; Moral', •~$ Honesty, is the best. policy."