WOE BETIDE THE BUSTER!
To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail. Sir, —I haint earned a single tanner since I last wrote, and what's goin' to 'appen I don't know. I 'ears as 'ow you and that little chap as you 'aye got with you (cheeky little warmint he is too, and a terrible 'and at dunning) had best keep your weather heyes open. There's a celebrated councillor, a rare 'and they tells me at waggin' his jaws, ?as got it in his nose agin ye, and, by gosh, I guess if you baint both on yees putty careful yell jist catch it warm one of these fine dark nights. At any rate, I knows he swears as 'ow he'll squash the " Buster " for ye. Well now, jist ye look here, if ye be at all skeered like, and forgets to carry yer shillelagh along a ye, ye'd best gie I a job for a couple of weeks to walk around with ye and purtect ye like. I oodn't want much, say a booze at each pub as ye passes in your " peregrinanations " and a chuck in of wittles when I gets home. If this hain't a cheap holler, well I 'spose I'll jist 'aye to keep out of work a bit "Jonger and jine the unemployed gang. I am, Sir, wnrrECHAi-BL joe.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 387, 20 April 1880, Page 3
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223WOE BETIDE THE BUSTER! Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 387, 20 April 1880, Page 3
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