FRIENDSHIP'S PLEA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 487, 18 August 1871, Page 3

FRIENDSHIP'S PLEA.

TO TBI EDITOR OF THE DWSTAH TJMW3. •tit»o*kii««, trter hu : Juntas dootW&i ■

Dunedin, I m glad to see old Hickuppy back agin/ be'and me bain regular pals, and doin our beer together moat uanimously. (That’s a wurd 1 pikt up at a publik meetin at Alexandra, promiscus like.) But lor ! Talk of words ! You should just hear my pal tulk, He’s been and laid in a stock of new nut as oughter make his fortio as a member of Parliment anywheres. 1 see my other frend, the man wot writes the Kromwill Buster, wants Hickuppy to give an account of his stewardship. I don't exactly kno wot this is ; but, if stew is to had, I'm there, espeshly with somethin hot purvided arter. I'm sorry to say pore Hickuppy is werry ill. He’s been put upon —he has, He’s a mortar to cirkumstances, and what he has gone throo is summat orful. If he is a goin to speechify I shall get him to tell all wofappened on his journey hup. Why to hear him go on to my own precious self actilly makes my air stand rite up hon hend. I fancy somehow that h’s goin to make a lawr hisself next time for to start free drinks and good lickcrs, and just to do the thing fare and square ho had to patlernise the bars all round as he come along, and oonsekvently got his linkers mixt most fritcful. Anyhow if it hadnt a been for anoteer friend of mine as is wery parshal to Shampano wen he can get it, as took pity on pore Hickuppy and took him in and dun for him all rile and reglar, we Kromwill denizens—no citizens—mite ave lost our man, and gon a grievin to find another like him. Talk about the on herhair em bein too much ; wot I say is this, and wot I wants you to ask the peeple to do at Clyde, is jest this : Let every one do the ansum, and give my pal a tcstymonyal say free quarters and free lickers till he’s wan'ed agin at Dunedin. ’Ansum is as ’ansum does, you know. Not bein proud, I’d be appy to live with him and do his washin, as my share toar Ja the testymonyal. Troolie yures, OLD FAKE. Kromwill, Aug. 17, IS7I.