A BLACK EYE.
When a man in splitting wood and a stick Hies up and blacks bis eye, he must prepare to endure all the taunts and joers which the world inflicts on a pirate. Social standing counts for nothing, and dignity can’t he made a mantle of. The other day, when a compositor on this paper took up his little axe and broke a stick in two and one end flow into his eye, ho knew that he must either remain in the house for two weeks, or go out and face the world's sneers. He decided to face the sneers, and during one short half-clay he noted down the following expressions:— “• It’s all right ; of course it was a stick of wood. Oil, yes.” “ jJeeu fighting again, eh ? ” “ Well, who knocked you down this time ? ” “ Oh, I’ve had tho same thing ail my eye, and I always laid it to a stick of wood.” “ Ha, ha. The policeman stuck hard, didn’t ho ? ” “ Of course it was a stick of wood—ye—ho — he !"
Thou there were some people who pointed him out as the abductor of Charlie Ltosa, and people who thought ho was one of the Gad's Hill robbers; and over fifty respectable men asked him why lie didn’t get the other one blacked so as to have a pair.— Exchitnye.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4939, 20 January 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)
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222A BLACK EYE. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4939, 20 January 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)
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