YANKEE BLOW.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 163, 10 July 1879, Page 4

YANKEE BLOW.

In announcing Parole's victories on English turf, Puck (a New York publication, much after the style of the defunct Tomahawk) indulged in this cboice specimen of Yankee blow : —

"We did— there's no nse denying it — we did feel a little sore when O'Leary instead of pegging away for the Astley belt, incontinently pegged out, and left tbe belt aforesaid to Rowel), and tbe glorification of John Bolt. But now we can crow ; the eagle and the whangdoodle (a bird unknown to Audubon) can flap their wings and scream ; for American horse Parole bas won three races from Mr Ball. He has put his foot in ihe British pocket, and extracted therefrom many thousands of pounds, and the British lion feels very much like a British ass when he remembers that he wagered 40 to 1 against a horse which had the record which Parole made in tbis country. But there is a deeper significance in this tban appears on the surface. There is a sporting rivalry between this country and England, and we have always claimed the supremacy. We have tried in many ways to show the little island her inferiority. We sent over a yacht (the America) and she beat all England. Then we sent a man (Heenan) who certainly * walloped ' her best man — Sayere. Then we sent a boat with half a dozen men, and Columbia woo tbe honours of tbo English river. Then next we sent a man to walk against all England, and O'Leary brought home to' us the champion's belt. This aroused alt the energies of all Englaod ; the entire land was scoured to find a man to whip Amor ica at oar own game. Little Rowell was discovered, sent over here, and he did the job. Baft this waa too much for Yaokeyland. Of course we had hundreds of human steam-engines wbo could i'j^o as they pleased at tbe rate of 800 tb 1000 miles in six dajß; but a more humiliating defeat was deemed necessalry to utterly crush "aughty Halbion^— something noble, yet inferior to a man. So Parole was sdmmoned to the front/ and thoroughly flabbergasted Great Britain," not once, not twice,. but thrice in three successive efforts. It took a little Man, with all sorts of lege— running lege, walking legs — cast-iron legs — to beat AmericaAmerica can and bas settled England's baßh with only a bors\ It has long bean a slur cast upon Americans that we haven't any leer in tbis country, because ' They arn't got the. 'ope, you know.' We now retaliate Our British cousin has no racers— they • hain't got tbe hk>pß, yoa know ; ' when they get a hors. that canbop and isktp over the torf like our American horied, then we'll send over a stilt inferior animal to knock tbe stuffing out of £F. Bui 1 , we'll send over a Mule, and even back him against an English Man."

Talk .about "blow"' after tbis, an* yoa will."