THE NEW “LOTTERY BILL.”

Kumara Times, Issue 1551, 16 September 1881, Page 2

THE NEW “LOTTERY BILL.”

[By Paddy Murphy.] Writing on the new Lottery. BUI, “ Paddy Murphy” says People is wondhrin up here how the dickings Docthor Wallis la ned the game o’ Fan Tan, but begorra, I know all about it, so I do. About a fortnight ago, I happened to dhrop into Jack M‘Ginnity’s to have a hand of forty-fives wid Jack, whin who the jooce should I find in the little back parlour beyant the bar but the Docthor sittin’ tuty-tate (Frinch) wid a Chineyman who grows cabbages out at the Hutt, be the name av Dhong Chow. “ What in the name av all that’s lucky are ye doing here at, all, at all, sittin* opposite a common Chineyman, Docthor, asthore?” ses I. “ Whilst, Paddy sea the Docthor, “ I’m just gnttiu’ an ins ; ght into the game o’ Fan Tan, for the Lotthery Bill debate,” ses he. “D’ye tell me so?” ses I. An’ sure enough, there was John insthmetin’ the Docthor in the mystheries o’ the game. This is how the Docthor lurned all about Fan Tan. Me pertikular frind, the number for Whack-a-White, Geordie M‘Lean, is goiu’to inthrojooce a Bijl to compel all grown np people in the colony to attind Sunday-schools, an wair long faces onced a week. Ther’s a clawe imposin’ a heavy pinalty for laughin’, an’ if any blackguard is caught smokin’ tobackey, or d hrin kin’ whisky whin there’s sarsparilla to be had, he is liable to get three months on the new thread-mill that Captin Hume is importin’ from Home, Be the Hokey, things is coming to a purty pass, so they are.