TU MUICH LOR.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 94, 26 March 1877, Page 2

TU MUICH LOR.

Dxab Mb, Hbditob,— l think what Judge Weston said the other day was true, that the folks here was tn fond of lor. For Reefton is gotten an orfid place- for lor. You can't rate near a parson, I meeae a regler fixed orthodocks divilcheater, but how meny loryers can youra c? There's old . thre's , and there's — » and a bush loryer or tn. and you arnt sattisfied with them, hut you send to the Gray foe one or tv more, and again to Bokyticky for one or tv more still. Tuey tel neone of them Hokyticky chaps isapaton tv, but I can hardly take that in, forseaaw tv much for umane bintellec for a Ban too leed yon thro all tbe twists and wMI of this world, bat should be able to give yon a map and a gide book for tbe tother wurld. Now I once lived tother side oC this island at Timers were there wtrnt neer a loryer, and the folks there was always hapoy and a grinning, no grunting but lots of shouting. Tbur was a R.M., old Billy Willcome, and some ounde J Peas and one Bobby, and of all the divellment that come off you bet 9 times out of 10 it were that bobby and you would win. Well, old Billy used to hold a cort about once a month, and the J Peas nsed to come in the night before with ! thar blue shirts on and shout like biases, and they'd make an old Irisher tite, and the bobby would take un up v so. the next day heed be brought to con and they fine him and I believe club together and pay his fine, for they only wanted the folks to see they done somat for there billets. But one day, and it wur a black day for Timaru, there came an old fellow, a regular swell, and folks war a krfiag, for be seamed a jolly old fellow,. Bked racing, shouting, aud billyards,. but aforelong folk seamed if they'd all got the bile,, and all seamed to tbink someone was a robben of them, but still they could not go. and have it out at cort because the loryer warn't allowed to back both sides. Well fc about a month or tv after thai ther waa some chaps playing of cricket, and up comes 2 seedy hungry looking hindywidnals with a bine bag under the arm ;. some said the contents war a tuth oomby a tuth brush, and a old news paper for stock in trade, for they waa loryers;. well, ww axed they to play, and Obis-

waj afeered to take off his coat for feat «• Talks wonld notice the different p»t#roi on the sent of his wastecoafc Well, afore Iheycl bin there a week, yoi 'wooldont have noed tlvm, for theyec Come out 'spank new, nil bhek cloth ant belltoppers and Halbert chains, and wen , a getting fatter ; and as for the folks everyone was at lor. Old Billy had U open Core every day, and it nearly drui him mad, for he borrowed all the dickey nanes in the place to see if he could not pick out harder words and bigger lies that they, and when he found he could not he floored them by saying that his cort was a cort of hcquity, not a cort of lor But after a bit he got into their ways and more pay, but tbe loryers got fatter and the folks got poorer, and the place nc longer fit for a wite man. Now, dear Mr Heditor, ,if you can only let tbe folks know that if they havo any misunder* standing with ther naybours, its better than going to law to toss up beds or tales, and if that wont suit to go to the back of the Cort house and fite it out farp, and let the Warden see fare play, and let old Jeff hold the bottle. 1 am, dear Mr Hedif ur, Yours truly, Ante Lob. Reefton, March 22, 1877.