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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 275, 29 May 1886, Page 4

employed to run the scent. Mick hailed from Waterford; and every man I ever knew from that County claimed to be in pome way connected with the celebrated Marquis of Waterford; either as a relative, a groom, or a stable help. Mick claimed to have been on the most intimate terms with that prince of blackguards, and consequently reckoned he was an authority on all matters pertaining to hounds and hunting, so it came about that he volunteered his services to drag a shin of beef flavored with aniseed over the selected ground. Mick started about an hour before the huntsman threw off, and, as he had some stiff fences to get threw on foot, he had not long got to the end of his journey when the dogs took up the running. The end of the run was close by the village pub, and Mick went in there, with the skin at his heels, for a pint. He had got through one, and was just about half through another, when the pack, running true to the scent, were upon him, and the hungry brutes would not have been long in making a meal of him had not the huntsman, whip, and others arrived and whipped them off. Mick had all the blow taken out of him by this little contretemps, and rarely referred to the Marquis afterwards.

Commercial. The depression caused by the collapse of the Champion mine, the low price of hops, and the general duleness of trade, has had the effect of causing more than one house to invite their creditors to hear a tale of woe. These re-unions are not very cheerful parties, and sometimes tho vindictive creditor feels called upon to express his disappointment of the credit system. Such a case happened a week or two ago here. It was something in this way:— THE BANKRUPT BOOTMAKER! Webb was bankrupt; Webb had cracked up ; twenty tradesmen went quite rabid, For the eighty pounds odd Webb had gone, and filed his schedule for. There were bakers, there were butchers, also drapers, who felt crabbed ; But the bandy-legged grocer was tho maddest of the score! That poor Muggycomb the the saintly should be let in by a cobbler, Was too much for Christian feelings, even in a Methodist! For he is a pious huckster, and he never takes a nobbier:

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