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“ ■ (From the Saturday Advcrliftr.) ; • Lumbton-kay, Wellington, October 3. f ■ ■ Be the powers o’ Moll Ko ly. badtuck to tha thing is b irrin’atall at all, since mo last, bavrm’aHllghtcoaMmfcuq/rf.(Frinch) wid Misther Stout about tho gossoons who'clanc the pawthers (thesepolitical measures resale more attiution thin tho otUer polilical measures) at Bellamy’s, an’ be dad me collaige get tho best o the argument, so ho did. I tuk tay wid tho Markiss a few nights ago. and' ho was axin' mo about; prorowgo in the House. Av coorso I advised him to.smu the mlthbers about their business at his airliest possible convainoanco, for shure mesilf and uie_ collaigos want -some loasuro.to matchuro our mays' an’ plans dor the futchuro. Bo the vartu o mo oath I’ve jist discovered a consperacy to upset us, an place Doctor -Wallis in the Prime-ear’s - suit. Tito iday is simply prepostherous, for shure he’s no moro lit to bo Prime oar. than Misther Satan himself. Now if'thcy talked o' liiakiti' him Mi'dsthero Lddicashun, there would bo some sinso in it.-as he’s a good grammarian, bokays he’s always a Parsiit, but Pnnic-c ir i; out o’tho question, so it is. As I was goin' homo a few nights ago from Bellamy’s I dhropp d across two mlmbers who pretend to bo grate frinds avoursiuthely, an’ tho following conversation inshueu, which I’ve sthraug into a nate liar-ic or lamination. I know thoir nAmes well, nn’ be jabers if they give mo any of their jaw I’ll let tho cat out o’the bag on thlm/so I will. ' ' • LAMBTO.V KAY. Como all yo loyal hayros. an’lind to me an oar, 1 I’ll tell aa thru© a story as iver yo did hear: • Concarnln’ two bould numbers if yoil iittintion pay, I’ll sing av thoir adviuturo-, boys, one night on Lambton Kay. ! Sure, cornin' homo from Bellamy’s, I met the daclnt unto the other, "Kali, I’ll shortly make a They promised mo a billet if )’d vote tho proper way. But still I'm left out in tho could to athroll on LambKay.” 1 “Be gorva,” ses the other, “Falx they promised me tho same, I luk me oath.to follow Mac, an’swear bo Georges name: I flung me uaubccn in the air, and shouted loud 'Hooray!' The day we kicked the Major out, a waif on Lambton Kay.” “Och, bo tho the hokey-pokcr,” tho former spaiker sed, , “PU follow in the tail no more av sich a thankless head ; Our laidhcrs keep us in the dark, an’ in tho twilight Grey, ViVro juped, humbugged, an’ hoodwinked too, I swear on Lambton Kay.*’ “An’ thin agin,’’, tho other sed, “ The tide begins to fall, -■■■■ Sir Goorgc is not so popular at all, at all, at all, As whin King Mob bowed down to him;; ackuowiodgiu, his sway, Bo jab rs,-mate, it’s time wo turned our coats on Lambton Kay.” The other spaiker tuk a swig from out a bottle black, Obsarvin’—“ Hero is slantha, boy, it's time wc changed our*tack ; Avick machree, sure I agree wid ivory word ye say,. ’ The wind av popularity is changed on Lambton Kay. Tho ether mimber tuk a pull, an’ses, “Be dad, I hear Tho Threasurcr begins to ale since he got on ms veer : Otago’s Frosbitarians wid Stout are taking tay, . They say ho d rob them av their right—it’s wrong on Lambton Kay.” “Supposin’, mate,” the other sod, “wo lift them in the lurch, ' Who would wo got to take the lade?” "We’d rest upon the church, ; There’s Dochtor Wallis—though a dark, I got him on a lay. Ho tould mo, saycntly, he’d like to rule on Lambton Kay.” The varmints tuk another swig, and shook aitch other’s fist. 'Twas rainin’ at the time, an’ soon the gintlemin wor mist ; I know thiiu well, the blacguards vile, who -would their frinds bethray; Me eye’s upon the thraithors since that night on Lambton Kay. Paddy Murphy,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5475, 14 October 1878, Page 3
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