THE NEW LEAGUE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3104, 9 June 1881, Page 4

THE NEW LEAGUE.

_ Is you de boss writer ?' asked a coloured citizen of the waiter persuasion the other morning, as ho bowed hrnisclf into the Post's editorial sanctum, with a Ohesterfieldian grace that made the society reporter grit his teeth with envy. The editor abstractedly wiped his pen on a spring poem, put the paste brush behind his ear, and admitted that aucfc was the fact.

Den Iso gwino ter ask yer tor sen , a powtnl good scribe out ter Hall ter-mght. Bar's gwino be de gran' annual meetin' ob de 'IV', Moons ' ' The what ? ' - a eie£t ¥ f M<K, 'ns,sar. It's or sekrit serdo rites ob de coloured t to). gemmen ob dis hyar city. j- .iat rights ?' " Well, sar, all de bottom fac's will bo lucidated by Brudder Skidmoro, de Gran' High Persimmon ternitc. He's gwino ter 'nishiate fou'tecn new membcre, and de subject fur dc obenin' will be " Jostlin , ," '"What-lin ?' ' Jostlin', siir. Deliidin' to de pcrwallin' habit ob dose yer cheap hoodlums, an' (loin snn' lot tra.ih, a-jostlin' ob coloured ladies and gemini Mis oil' <(c sidewulks, and u-wulkiu on their corns in <lc public wcliicklos.' 'They must tread .somewhere, , mused the editor, glancing down at his visitor's generous bunion covers. ' Perhaps if you could induce'your members to walk in the middle of the street single file, it would diminish the danger to your pedalistic continuations.' ' 'Bite dat down, boss;' exclaimed the coffee-coloured reformer, excitedly. ' 'llitc down dcin las' words, quick! I'll jes' fire dem at do coons dis evening', and break 'cm all up—l will, fur suah. Dey can't 'rcstle wid dem 'ar higli-stcppin' spressions ter bress dcir brock hearts !'

And after receiving an assurance that a full detail of stenographers would be in attendance, the leaguer shuflled down stairs singing, \De objec' ob dia Order Am not ter study stars ; But ter keep dem low down hoodlurrs From ridin' in our kyara.'