The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-12

the pink terrace of similar formation,
but more symmetrical. Its basins are
smaller and more numerous, and the
water not quite SO hot as that offs white
companion. We bathed in these natural
basins in water of natures heating, and
it was the perfection of bathing True,
it had no shower accompaniment,
neither were we Obliged to cool the water
by the slow and unpleasant process
known to the plumbers art, which COM
gests the head while it freezes the feet,
or vice versa, as you change ends in the
modern bathtub to equalize the circula-
ton. It is simpler han all that in this
terrace bathing, for when tired of one
temperature you need only to Jump
over the side of the basin into hotter or
cooler surroundings, as you may elect,
changing the temperature by Is degrees
at each glad jump till you find but tepid
water in the lake below.
This is on the long coach road from
Auckland to Napier, and it's well that it
is, for there is nothing else to attract the
attention for. a single moment from the
meanest, most desolate looking country
] have ever encountered, and four days
of fern, tea tree and pumice should
find their compensation somewhere.
laundering leisurely along heavy bush
road on the box seat, where nothing
visible could escape our notice, and
where the most trivial things became
the subjects of remark. or: discussion,
struggling to keep awake when we could
hardly go to sleep, we espied number
of curious creeping, ropy vines, whose
base Of supplies seemed to be among the
branches Of the largest trees, and whose
aim and object in.life was being enacted
with all the malice and cunning known
to things that can crawl. It Was toward
evening Of a weary day, and we were
getting sotired from coaching that even
to yawn was laborious. / had been for
some days in New Zealand then, and
had acquired but little that could be
called new information there, and not
one. Individual thing out of which to
construct my next letter to the UNION,
and it dawned upon me lazily that this
might be supreme moment that pos
sibly out Of this miserable twiner, this
stranger of sturdy trees, this vegetable
bushranger, | may learn enough to make
a column article and have q little to
spare; but before I could frame. O
question or think of the half have writ
ten about them, already the considerate
driver continued "They are peculiar
to New Zealand, and we cali them law
yers." Did / understand him correctly I?
Did he say they were LAWYERS! My
mind ran back to numerous acquaint-
ances of that same name over in Ameri-
ca; surely they are not twiners No;
but then-and just here the driver inter-
rupted my thoughts with "You see, sir,
those slender vines struggle along quite
aimlessly until they come in contact
with something of greater vitality (the
client, I thought; !" they insinuate them
selves among the prosperous branches,
penetrate the bark, and 60 to the very
heart of the.tree itself, sapping nourish-
rlent from the parent trunk and tickle
branches, it wakes strong Here my
interest quickened, for I had heard of
something of thisSsort before outside the
vegetable kingdonI) - That larger but
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grown stronger and more capable now.
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