RUNNING A-MUCK.
Malays, coolies, and other degenerate specimens of the human race, possessing feeble intellect, often lose what little reason they possess, and with knife or gun “run killing and maiming all that come in their way, till captured, and chained up or shot like mad dogs. The disease sometimes extends to journalists, with ludicrous effects: “ He raves ; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scatter’d wide from same; So high he’s mounted on his airy throne, That now the wind’s got into his head, And turns his brain to frenzy.”
Our contemporary has our sincere commisseration ; medical aid, careful nursing, and perfect rest will possibly remove all traces of- “ running a-muck.” None then so sorry as he that, in the heat and fever of the brain he should have indulged in vulgarity and mistaken it for i argument.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 January 1903, Page 2
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141RUNNING A-MUCK. Greymouth Evening Star, 19 January 1903, Page 2
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