A Kalathumpian.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 260, 22 September 1874, Page 7

A Kalathumpian.

-A At a meeting at Omeo the other day, Mr: Perry asked Mr Jack if he were a Kalathumpian, a question that might well pussle a stranger, though the term is well understood at Omeo; where it originated in this wise A well-known official in this . who commenced colonial life as a digger, had for his first two mates an Irish "doctor, who has long since quitted the 'pick and shovel to follow his profession, •and the erratic Sob of an English Church '•dignitary who, like parsons’sons, ran wild, ; attd had no great respect for religion. They • id a ,hut belonging to the doctor, kftotwju :fr<jm its. airy .construction as the " bird c*g©.” *To this' hut, cm Sunday

morning, Jjied, g,.worthy countrywoman -of the-doctora Ma been a few months : and wished fa WPWIt. upon a delicate* subject j'bttt'it being the turn of thb son to be hut keeper, she found the doctor and his other math absent, and Master .whp 'Waa e bit of a wag, in possession of the premises. After a little conversation bn ; 'genbral the good lady;, fancying; perhap* that ’on ,sqch an important and critical occasion, she would be safer in the hands of ode of her own faith, inquired in the blandest terras if Dan could inform her whether his mate, the doctor,,was a Catholic; whereupon Dan, putting on. a serious face as became so solemn an - occasion replied, “ I think not, inarm. ‘ 1 believe the doctor is of the same religion as myself." “ And what might that be, Mr W1" “ A Kalathumpian, marm." : . “ And what’s a Kalathumpiaii! Well, bless me, I’ve heard of several religious sects with strange names -—Quakers, Shakers, and such like—but 1 never heard of a Kalathumpian. before. May Lbe permitted to ask what you believe in f’ “Oh yes, marm,” replied Dan, “we believp in three things—grog, gals, and gold.” This is the religion of a gpod. many others I fancy. A witty clergyman to whom this anecdote was related, called it not inaptly, “ The Digger’s Trinity."