DELECTABLE DUKE-STREET.

NZ Truth, Issue 127, 23 November 1907, Page 6

DELECTABLE DUKE-STREET.

"Superior's " Saucy Sass.

Duke-street, Christchurch, the home of s"ome of the lower aristocracy, is famous for its billingsgate, harlots, anonynious letters and what not. Some of the denizens of the thoroughfare walk miles to, post any anonymous letter to the cat next door, or to her paramour, or any old pair of pants that happens -to "be residing there. * Here is an extract., from a polite missive of an anonymous character, lately received by a person who lives m that ducal locality : — "Why don't you keep that dirty old moll of yours at home and make her scrub her: pigstye of a house out. She does nothing else but run the streets with Ginger Sal, and with her two ginger rabbits. Ask Ginger if she remembers Jack giving her six brandies and port wines.

SHE WAS ONLY A SKETCH when she lived down south, and isn't much better now. The first time the police catch your old moll out of i-he house on a Saturday night they are going to pinch your kids. Yours, Superior." Of course, the individual who vieceived this „ note resents his wife being called a moil, and says his house is as clean as any m the street. Further, that the writer .of the unclean note is no class and a serpent, and a destroyer of family harmony. So he metaphorically puts his fingers to his nose and tells her to go to.