HEARING that the Legislature had adjourned1, the people of an

　　Assembly District held a mass-meeting to devise a suitable

　　punishment for their representative. By one speaker it was

　　proposed that he be disembowelled, by another that he be made to

　　run the gauntlet. Some favoured hanging, some thought that it

　　would do him good to appear in a suit of tar2 and feathers. An old

　　man, famous for his wisdom and his habit of drooling on his shirt-

　　front, suggested that they first catch their hare. So the Chairman

　　appointed a committee to watch for the victim at midnight, and take

　　him as he should attempt to sneak3 into town across-lots from the

　　tamarack swamp. At this point in the proceedings4 they were

　　interrupted by the sound of a brass5 band. Their dishonoured6

　　representative was driving up from the railway station in a coach-

　　and-four, with music and a banner. A few moments later he entered

　　the hall, went upon the platform, and said it was the proudest

　　moment of his life. (Cheers.)