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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1372, 23 October 1883, Page 2

Yn f.iufellows may talk of hard hands, but I gYtawkee Sullivan in hie prime,d and he useo'naad "f acid that hardened his hands, so t kou you shook hands with him 'n the darkyah’a think you were grasping ai blacksmith’" anvil. I onct seed him at a country butcherin’ down South doin’ a thing with his right hand that made a lastin’ impression on me ” “ What did he do,” asked the man in perfumed garments. “ Well, sir, they was about to kill a beef on the farm, ?nd they could’nt find an axe with stiff *nuff handle for the job, when ’long comes Yank, and seein' the quindary they was in ’greed to slay the bullock with his naked fist. All ’greed and he hauled off and let the bullock have it right ’tween the two eyes. What became of that bullock, do you think.?” “He made for Yank,” said one. “ No. sir.” ” Dropped,” ‘Ugeest'd h second, •' Mora an that ” “ Was killed,” from a third. “Well, gents, thalf 1 ullock was turned right mt> bee' tea, and e ore ’hey could get ’nuff of buckets the c round had soaked it all up.” f