A JUROR'S REPORT OF THE RODDAM CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 3098, 23 January 1873, Page 3

A JUROR'S REPORT OF THE RODDAM CASE.

Koddam was a beery coon, As owned some drays and horses, But just before the mouth of June These things wore making losses. Say he to Scott, “ I will sell out—lint mind and keep it dark-, For Carmichael, that cunning lout, Is at me like a shaik.” Now, Pritchard was a knowing lad, Who knew these teams of Koddam ; And he could see they were not bad, Because be always shod ’em. Pritchard, Koddam, and John Scott, They met one day in town ; The first-named then he bought the lot, And paid the money down. Now, Koddam meant to go away, And not to pay his bills, So at the early break of day Was driven off by Mills. When he had got unto the Bluff, And found Ins beer was stopped, Of life be thought he’d had enough, And o’er the side he dropped. Now, this has caused no end of law, Of talk an I other trash ; And, what to us is such a bore, Entails a loss of cash. And now we must go back a bit To when Jack Koddam did depart, When Pi itch ml saw he would be hit, Unless he acted smart. He took out Haynes, and what was nun, He took another big, fat man John Brown by name, a well-known <l ham,”. To get the waggons, ifjfiey gau, O.u this excursion, wo are tqh], That, at Waitaki, they partook Of mutton chops, which were quite cold, And no doubt then they the cook. Possession taken —there was nought To lead a person to suppose That such a battle would be fought As this, which gives us no repose. But some men seem to like the law, And go into it with (|«ljght j But, to indulge in a lawyers jaw, Is sure to mfike your'pockets light, This seems to be tfie only end That Pritclignl’s suit will cause ! fq q hot place I would him send, And that with much applause.