TO MY COUSIN IN AMERAKY.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4327, 13 November 1882, Page 3

TO MY COUSIN IN AMERAKY.

(Per faTor of the Evening Star.) pSAK Pat,—You must think I bare quite forgottin* ye, but sbure there's nolbm partikler has happened since the ihctiong until lately, whin a man wid a quare Frinch name rery loik an Irish eztraxion, proposed to make our railway wid Inglish capital. I felt suspisus of the name bein' intrusted wid Inglish money, and having seen in the papers ye sint me where the Land Laygue had closed their accounts (the same as " Stephens," the head center did) widout tellin' how he made away wid £96,000 of the cash, I begun to suspict that this rery mistic acridited agent moight hare come out here to seek a safe and distant invistment. It coorse i?ery% body subscribed to it, and nobody in par* tikler will feel much loss. Begorra Pat. in the midst of ray suspishuns there came tilegrams that made my hair stand on md wid joy, to find that •• Mack " (the Car- ■ dinal) ye know, and all our boys were in | jaygue wid him, and whativer the sacrit is, they still keep it to themselves—frolh Pat, the Cardinal made a great mistake in axin the Borough for a free passage and keep for himsiif and his aginr, to come here and spy out our land. Spaitf was afeerd if the Cardinal got a free passage here he moight remain heie and perhaps trap him aginas he did in Wellington, so he toted aginst it, but ye must not think him lost to us for all that. Jist let me Ny« D.ow what ye think of my suspisbuns • about the land laygue bisness whin jou meet the mimbers on. your side. 'Ye will see by the papers I sicd ye that there is a local railway company formed widout the dokther as usual; he can't see 150 per cint. paid in advance, or any chalice iv iver gittin' in the Upper House, so he takes a back sate; The Boro* Spaker (Dane) is agin to the front doin' all the bisniss for nolhin', jist to keep the spindin.' iv all our money in his own grasp—is'nt he koind and ginerous. Yer ould frind Tom (the Boro' Foreman) je rimimber) has been very short of wind since tbe flud, he can't blow the dust off his thodelit. so he's made a couple of great mistakes in ilevßtion on the Queen street bridge, and os Dane's livjuneer (Mr Beer, ye know) ba9 done worse wid both tbe Harbur and Borough, I wud sugest to save our cridet that the railway directors moight put the two togither.and make Beer raise the wind for Tom, and get"-Dane Jo bould the bridle to keep him blowin'in one direction, bekase the value of that pecular kink the craft has put in Tom's, thodelit will be lost to us, should anything happen the fortunate owner.—lour loving frind to deth, Young Basket.