The Sit-chew-ashin.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4654, 4 December 1883, Page 3

The Sit-chew-ashin.

WtttJiiKTEU, Cbewsda. Misthee Additue. —Sob, —Me rmsforchtines have, ay late, prayvinted me.j from follyin the raygular coorse ay \ cbrrispondince which me inclaynations prompted. I have, sense me arrival here purshued a policy which I fondly hoped would have li d me gloryusly into a vacant pbrtfoley, an undhersaycreteryship, or perhaps even in me wildest flights, a fancy BUggested an apjjzn^ment in the polis foorce ay the Kuluny, but sor, such is the base ingratitudation, and gross coiruptiality, not to shpake ay ignorance an/ folly ay laving jaynyas unrecognised, me hopes are dhrowncd, m 9 fond ashpireabilities shcatthered, an' meself left to ljine the Salvuation Army. Furst, it's a uniforum I'd like ; an' saccuad —faith I want to command some ay the boys; an I will, so I will. It was wid feelin's ay ginnywine pleasure that I rued me way to the barracks and shtruck up an' ackwentince wid a faymale eintinel. She said, in the coorse ay confabyelashun, that she was attached to the commisharat, an' faith I thought what a lucky divil that . - same man must be. She was very frayquintly makiu' use ay " Hallyloojah," which I suppose is a pass word or something they have to say at intervals to keep ' thim awake. I was tould that "Meejor Barker was a good man, hallyloojah ; and bo was Mrs Majoor, halJyloojah; that the Army had done more good than Holloway's ointment, hallyloojah, or hop . iitthera, hallyloojah ; and all good sojers wor mm and wirnmen who had renounced the dml and his pumps, hallyloojah. Here I said, "Ah, poor craychnre, its diminted ye are ; the divil an' his pumps, is it; faith it's a nice little cheque the ould gintleman fud give to have anything to pump, much less a pump to pump wid ; sure the divil a pumphashe." Widtbatthe purty little santynil threw up her sbweet eyes and lukked horreyfide. I aft her- . wards saw wan ay the captains, an he was astonished to lam me views in connection wid jinin' the Army. I tould him I was prepared to take a commission not only in ther army, but also a commission on all "' the sowls I saved. The captain, faith, showed a disinclination to dale, and I found be his expressions that the pay was poor, an the only threasures to be mcd wor to be haped up in another wurruld. Begog, I left him wid a contimpt for his business undhershtandin', I did, and wid a few hallyloojahs, an a wink or to at the offishuls (faymales only), I kern away. I immaydyitly attinded a concurrence ay the Cabinet, an as Atkinson was away I shtud a show. Ther was the bould an relaygus Dick, the urbane Oliver, me f rind Watty Johnson an' Bollyson prisiot. I opened • the'violins ay me roth, and shpread fear in ther hearts whin-I tould them that owin' to them puttin' Mitehelson in the Portfoley which I was intinded to have, I musht jine the Opposayshun. Man alive, \ the winced. I thin left. Faith I'm now '" waitin' fur thim- to send me a flag ay ■ thruoe, arid ay they make the terrains ay ' rayconsillyashua aisy, I might be wid • them yet. Me Northern frind Hurst, as • well as Paycock, tillygraph to me not to give in, and faith I won't, ay it doesn't pay hanshumly.—Yours in waifcin', : • Shaun the Post.