Miscellany.
MORE WIFE THAN COUNTRY.
The other night, soon after a ward meeting had opened, one of the electors present began edging for the door as, if he meant to leave the place. Hewaß soon stopped hj a friend, tvTio s.iid " Don't leave us now ; I w.nfc you to hear what that speaker is saying. Hear that! He says we must triumph or the country is doomed." " Yes, I know ; but I've got to edge along towards home," was the reply. " Home ? Great heavens, how can you talk of going home until he has finished that speech? There he goes again ! He asks if you want to see grass growing in the streets ; our fertile farms returned to the wilderness ; our families crowding the poor-houses until there is no longer room to receive another ? " " No, I don't know as I would ; but I*M guess I'll sort o , work my way out." '*-^^ " Wait fifteen minutes—ten—five— wait until he finishes. There it is again ! He asks whether you are a freeinaii or a slave. He wants to know if you have forgotten the patriotic principles defended by the blood of your grandsires—if you have forgotten the sound of liberty bell ? " " I don't know as I have ; but I must go—really I must." "Hear that—hear that! He says r our country will bless you." " I can't say as to that," replied the man as he crowded along ; " but I'm dead sure that the old woman will if I don't git home in time to put this codJash to soak, for breakfast." " Great guns 1 But do you prefer - codfish to liberty ? " exclaimed the other. ' I don't know as I do, but I git more of it." " And you will see the country ruined —see her go to destruction ? " " I'd be kinder sorry to sea her go clow , '! hill," slowly responded the deliu~
quent as he reached the door ; " but if you ha d a wife who could begin jawing at 10 o'clock and not lose a minute unjil daylight, and then end up with.a grand smash ot crockery and a fit of hysterics, you'd kinder stand off as I do, and let this glorious old Republic squeeze through some mighty fine knotholes."—Detroit Free Press.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 470, 25 January 1881, Page 2
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371Miscellany. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 470, 25 January 1881, Page 2
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