"PADDY MURPHY" 'ON MITE IMPROVING'."

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 420, 23 December 1884, Page 6

"PADDY MURPHY" 'ON MITE IMPROVING'."

— -♦ — DEK Mr EDITEJt,—! belong too a nashun ov poeto and orators, tharfor went too Paddy's entertainment ou Saturda nit« out ov komplement. He was " mite.improvin 1 *' the rong wa. He was altoogether different from Robbie Burns— ye ken his " Cottar's Saturday Night"! I'd never mentshun the too together agen. Two things in partikular jard on my ear : Firstle : He read a sermun or kommentare on old Mother Hubbari going to the kubburd. The burden of this sermun was that our parsons have bare kupburds (pulpits), not j even a bone for a poor dog ; they hwitl awa the Wurd till not even a bone be left. But as none of them were there, and it is not likely anyone will risk their kustom (spare tho' it be) by telin them, 1 don't see how the improvement is to be eflceked. Sekundle : He read a subscription list for saserdotal 'purposes. Those who were in i debt gave liberally, those who were not gave sparingly. Two ways of keeping up kredit. " Paddy is going 10 Wellington, where, [on the eve of banknipicy, traders give freely to (Jhurch bazaars and ciiarities. His reading might, be improving there, but it was uncharitable 10 give it here when several sacerdotil enterprises are on hand" — so my nabcr scd. Awl oogeth r tb se redings were in vere b;td tast on a Saturda mt, and if •' mire improving' " 1 sa it was the rong wa. — Bt;lev me, Janbst Geddes. Gore, Munda morn.