JIM THE MILKER.

NZ Truth, Issue 64, 8 September 1906, Page 6

JIM THE MILKER.

When you heard from me larst I" told yer that I had been called outto, attend a lady who was threatengfd| With a spook well making; all haste I got there quick and lively, but. when I pranced into the house it was a bit ■late and 'the spook had got into the woman's inside and had , her under control. When I went into the bedroom she yeled be off I don no yer, what the hell do you want here ? ; ain't a decent woman to be left alone witiioueht coves like yer coming around. Well knowing that a spook was m her inside I diaognosed her icase<at once striped her so that there Would be no mistake put me ear to the pit of the stomik 1 and then heard, me jccker raging like a wild beest. If it had been a unexperienced cove like McLean or, Russell they would have said the woman was drunk but' I understood the case at once and laid me hands on. Well yer would hardly believe it but the spook roars out oh Proffeser Sharkey don't be to hard on a poor cove that once preached the wurd m a fine Presby-teria-n kirk m this city oh lord to think that I died with thirty thousand quids me a better parsin than Jim Gibbs with all his bully whanging. Says I me buck cut it short at wonoe what do yer want to roost on a married woman's bed fer yer damned thief ? iq-uick or I'l lay me hands on yer. Oh lord profferer Sharkey what do ver think, me that preached to other coves and thought when I died that it was glory straight with a big halo, but no they pitched me strait into hell neck and crop, oh krist it was hot make no error. I was nearly laying me, hands on him but he whined tell them profieser that this dredfiil .place is full of parsons, landlords and usurers the coves that are always going to the kirk, if yer knew dear proffeser how the devils grab yer with pitchforks yev would be sorry. Quick or me hands will be laid on so give it mouth. Well profi'eser yer must no that I anout on leave when yer m hell if you file a petetion or have a deputation heded by the divel's under, secretary whoisa important bloke m these parts (m the flesh he was a bishop) yer can get out for twenty-four hours to cool of. Then I laid me hands aw anil there was darknes for a time a;; tho candle went out. Now when a great man like me a born filossifoi: tells yer these things, when yer, cant 1 get m a wore) ed^ways either to the n£2L

.post or times on the distruction of the people by landlords, parsons arid other vermin and where the only .remidy is to write to your journal ■"Truth" what are we to do? dont yer think that the people should form , themselves into an 'anti-parson, ahti'landlord union so that poor coves could get justice at present yer no without me telling yer that it has ■become a question- wether the parson 'the landlord and the usurer will exterminate the people or the people ;Will exterminate them m a legal way. . We are as yer no a fine country but let me tell yer that it is under the '' shaddo of the fat man. If it were not under his shaddo how •would child slavery exist m New Zealand m the dairy districts?., a state of affairs that never privaled' in the worstimes of slavery m the suthran states. I asked yer a question well I know yer answer, it is that the shaddo of the fat man is as a blight on the face #of the earth which nobody can deny.' Sometimes yer get tired trying to get blokes to Understand tnxe. fillbssify spook raisin"- arid other matters. The bosses wife Madame Sharkey has jined the associated society of political - rampagers and fer that reason I thinkthere is great- hope for the future yer will see her at the bis: meeting on the 10th at the town h all she intends to put herself well m front anyhow she will be the best looking woman there so ver will no her. JIM THE MILKER: