Epistolary.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4399, 8 February 1883, Page 3

Epistolary.

The Wbarf, Wullentin, Chewsda. Misther Adiltur, Things are mighty flat in this undulating city. Isn't that quare now. Errry wan is growlin', an grumblin', and' divil a thing else ye hear, but "Is ther goin to be a change."" Thp v bould Jervoys has .. a.rale lire Ministher in waitin, so be has. an begog it's no other than onld nailkeg, the majestic Bobby Oliver. I wender , now what me frind O. will have to do, what his juties will be; ,faith I would like to see him bobbin 9 round behind the •vice-raygil chair wid a napkin on his arm, \«*ayin, "Kidney soup, yer Axcellency," It's a schweet Ministher in waitin' onld tintacks an' butt-hingesis. So it's pace wid honor Misther Bryce is tbryin'; he won't be euchred while he holds the joker in his hand. Me frind McNap tillegraphs from Too-high-oh, where they're layin' off a new town that the poor divils sat down an looked on, whin the saw the could , do nothing. The Wullentin papers wor ahtnek an the cricket reports they got .from Austhralye. Wan ay thim didn't know what the hat thrick was. The Impoire City shnd know something about hats, for jurin' the session as fine a gathering ay ould hats as a man could wish to see mebbe found there. Misther Arthur Forbes has been wid us, an he tould ns of thim princes he has met and had half pints wid, and he bad some ordhers on his bresbt (I may mintion I hvre a few of thim same, bnt they nre ordhers not paid for). Misther Knowles , the Under-Saycrethary ar Public Works has, afther forty-wan years ar a toleraßly aisy time retired on a comfortable pinshun. Misthur Snowies was always a great favrit wid a a number bt people whom I never met. It isn't fixed who will succade him, but ther is a little Adonis in the offis, whose same is synonymis wid popularity an' reshpect, an' some people say be moight be thrun into the late bosses room. Whin I saw Mi Bther Bunny was shpoken ay fur the billet, I thought—well, faith ther goin' to hare another Bellymies in the big building an' they want an inshpectbnr. We expicted thim bowld good«.fayld railway mm down as ye said in yer paper, togetthe Thames Valley railway conthract signed. I fancy I see Misther Fraßhur and Johnny Martin wid their white weskets and diosmas in their button-holes, and ther aisy amble doin' the Say, while ould Bobby Graham an the honorable Tommy Dick cud be play in' that favorite Scotch"came whisky poker in the Minishtayreal office. Give me love to Brodie an' the boys.— Yours, as in the days of yewer, . • Shaun the Post.