An Ungrateful Fellow.
(Asmodeub m New Zealand Mail.') A touching episode of the current elections has to be related. Sceue, the bjM' of a pub : an electioneering ageu't and four of the great and free. alx>ut to imbibe at the expense of the former. Said one of the latter to him: '• Gruens, old hoes, we have met bofore ; wern't you at the Devil's rush m the old Otago digging days?" Reply, " Yes, 1 was ; what of it " « Ah," said the other, you're so and so, not Mr , mind you, but just so and so. You can go to h— l." "Well," rejoined the astounded agent, "if you have anything to say about me, «»y it." That I have," savagely stuttered the other. '* Do you remember the big flood m the river, and how you pulled a woman out who was being carried away. That was my wife. You uaved her, and you can take your old torn; 1 won't driuk with you." " Y&h !" he continued, shaking his fist, " yon saved her, go to the devil," and with that he walked away, leaving the three ■" independents " and the '-agent m open-mouthed amazement. The man evidently had too much wife, and is of just the kind of material for a Mormon Apostle to tackle.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 209, 31 July 1884, Page 2
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212An Ungrateful Fellow. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 209, 31 July 1884, Page 2
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