New Chum's Rambles

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 102, 5 March 1887, Page 3

New Chum's Rambles

• : ' : " (Coi3£trNlOAtEl>,J „.:,.: '■ " : "SoaiVlts ■ Oireland . ! *iuv. fi;Gm, : aye its pleasing to yez, and.wpwlli loikejto! fi«etde i dbw.a. iv .yer purtyj,, country.; JfeLore betoken, t&at iVe heard so much aye-its beauty an wealth when I was" jyn the -Ouid Country, :begora'so I : did.An so wid a .view- to -nia'te hiysilf ' acquainted wid thtj- institutions ' aye Feildmg 1 took '&: sthfble a. 'f ew evenings ago, ah 1 wid yet permission I'd' fa'aftner telling yez phat I seen, so I wud. As I wiht along the sthreet I 43aw, a man pressed; in a .queer *qrt of liFery, standing at the door of a hall, an eiz I, sorj phat place is ' that, . Oh, mz Jie, it's ; thje Army that's in itWa^ in^ I did, an there wus a lot aye .men ; an ; woman;, saying their! prayers. An wun-^gasoon in a red; jacket kept shouting amen, ' &c. It's iaorry.i'd be to say he wasent wise,; hut he dideat look it, so he dident. IChere -wus : wun very nice spokin; woman, wid a queer poke bsnnet, anj dsfl^are ithey called her tlie i Capt^n, so ihey did. Siz I, to a country man aye; iiiy own, bedad, if this is the. Army,' its moity quiet yez are in this country.; Siz he, wait till the bhoys, arrives, an; presently they did arrive, -an aye all' 'the spalpenis aye hoodlums I iver seen, them wus about the worst.' 3?here wus about tweuty aye theui. "H'hey cau all>shnioke : au swear, but -not wmi aye tliiiu kuows , how to Itehieiive thiniielves foi itiive miiiutesJ iSiz I to u-uu aye the mimbers, yez] ■ought to kejep a bucket aye water an a inup to wash out the mouths avu thiui jouug iblaguards that ai*e so! fouL Shurea daeeut pig would be ushamed to keep a mouth like some i save thim. oh> s\z he, thiuis some aye ihe risdug geuerutiou. Thiui, siz I, ibegora if thim& a fair sample, an are , .only rising, I yity yez, &v I hope I'll i)e dead when the}' are riz, soldo. Jist thin, the all wiut out wid a. rush aii beguii throwiug stones on the roof au wuu through: the wiudey ; so taking me bit aye a sthick in me fist 1 Avint out intending to teach some aye thim-a little manners, but the cowardly spal|>eenß i run away. Siz I to the doorkeeper, ! why dont yez git a policeman and lock, them up. Oh siz lie,' we are supposed to have a police anan, for I've -seen his cloths' in the Court, but he dont care fur us. Thm iegora, siz I, yez ought to take the 3aw in yer own hands. Ide catch, every mothii's son live .thim an hing thim up by the feet till tfieir -bhraihs j gets into their heatis. Thin a good I mlW 1 in- ! -iom6 "ttrph^ v sheep dip. , to ! Xlean 1 fifttiiip a'biir, an if tha^di^Eipt I vuxe them I be fifther borrowing the ] Bangitike3r. hqi^udsan ..hjont,, tbyn put i jave the cbuiitry, so* I would, . , T>e&r , Mister Editer I hope ye'U excuse bad writia 1 and spellidj ' Me ; toothake i^iiit better yet. New Cuum. ICiwtteaVSlareli Ist, I*B7. -