CURIOUS NOMENCLATURE.

Evening Star, Issue 4028, 25 January 1876, Page 3

CURIOUS NOMENCLATURE.

A late traveller in the Western District (say “i'Egles ”) was struck by the absence of of the usual tesselated language of the bullock driver in the case of a man on the road with a small team, which he thus apostrophised, “ Come hither, Baptist! W-o-o-o ! Presbyterian,” &c. This mode of address seemed so strange to the traveller that he entered into conversation with the man, and asked him bow these titles were applicable to a bullock team. “Well, sir, you see,” said he, “I calls this the ’clesiastical team. You see that bullock on the off side, leading; I calls him Baptist. We’ll lie crossing the creek presently, he’ll be bound to make for water. That one on the near side he’s ’Piscopalian, cause he holds his head so weny high. That bullock on the off side of the pole, the one with the crumpled horu, I calls him Presbyterian. He’s the most out-and-out knowing bullock of the lot. The brindle in the same yoke with him, he’s Wesleyan. He’s always a-grunting ami a-groauing, as if he was dragging the whole load. Bless your life, sir, he’s not pulling an ounce.”