THE BATTLE OF THE COUNCIL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1083, 8 April 1913, Page 3

THE BATTLE OF THE COUNCIL

OR A LITTLE GAME OF

BLUFF,

[bv’h. Richmond.]

Goliath sat at the table with a smil e

so bland, Earnestly praying he held the game

■in his hand. “Oh, no,” saith old Spokes, “you

have not won yet; Really, up my sleeve I hold a good card, you can bet.” Growler then rose in great wrath

and a roar: “Even this great game I’ll wipe up

with the floor.” “Hold,” cried Flaxie, “I’ll cover and

rise ten bob, Either I’ll win or I’ll drown, by gob!” Nice mannered Doc. did not wish to

intrude, “Really,. though, he said, “you re

* awfully rude.” “You bet!”.spoke Wharl Rat, with

a smile and a grin, “Auld Spokes, with his trump card, ■ will just about win.” “Fortunately,” said Waterfall, as he

rose with a lurch, ‘‘Oh, thank God, it will not interfere w.ith the church.” “On iny conscience,” Cannie Chiel

cried, quick and alert, “Loath I would be to do harm to the kirk.” And then Standing Orders, with his cards all displayed, Now . said, “Gentlemen, this game had better be stayed.” Flaxie then rose to his feet to argue he’d not tarried, Hailed for the “ayes” and not “noes”

and cried “it’s carried.” One yell, and a roar and a cry for

the “noes,” Really, this eventually caused

Flaxie to turn up his toes. Now, Spokes, despite gibes of the the "guards” “macs,” “twaddlers,”, and “worker,” Beat hife breast, held fast to his card

for he was never a shirker. “Lost, oh no, but temporarily shelved,” Off to the archives where he quickly delved, Wherein he read of a “stranger in a fair land” who was a

bold, And quickly sought his aid, eve n

in his stronghold. Now, the 30th was proclaimed to decide the great fight, And the people, gaily decked out shouted with delight. Sleek George so full of his business that Spokes quietly slipped in and won, on his trump card “progress.”