THE LIME-KILN CLUB.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4856, 2 August 1884, Page 1

THE LIME-KILN CLUB.

14 Dar am seb'ral things dafc doan* look 'zactly right to me," said Brother Gardner^ as he rubbed Iris bald head with one band and opened the meeting with the otheri. ;" It doan' look 'zactly right to'see one man with 10,000,000 dollars and another with only 10 cents (applause by* Samuel; Shin), but jit if I was the ten-tniHion dollariman I wouldn't keer wheder it looked right or not." (Sudden end to the applause.)'"•'•"" It doan' look 'zuctly right tor ~onei man to own a great .foundry, ;'wliile anoder man am obleeged to work fur two dollars a day (" Hear ! hear I" from Judge OadaTer); but if I was de two-dollar a day man I wouldn't frow myself out^of a fob tospite the owner an' please ad< magogue/'v^XTho judge subsides.) Vlt doan'Took 'zactly right to see one man hold offis all de time, while anoder man has to shbye. a;jackplane fur a libin' (great ruatle "M< Pickle Smith's corner) but he who slipfes de:jack plane lias the respeck of de comniiiriity and keeps outer jail.'' ■; (Hustle;-dies^'away.) "It doan' look 'zactly right to See : fo'ty lawyers rush to defend acrimiDar who has stolen money in bis pockets', while de offender who am moneyless am left to dig his way. frew alO.foot wall wid an ole knifeblade (grios on a dozen faces); but if I was a lawyer T should aim my money any i oder way except' by sawin' wood. i. De public doan look for any par tickler display of conscience on de part of lawyers, an* darfore suffer uo disappointments." (Grins no longer observable). "It don't look 'zactly right fur one man to have a bij; brick house an' anoder man a rough bod shanty, but 'long bout tax time de man in de chanty can sit on de fepce an' chuckle ofer de fack dat he naint. rich; It doan' look 'zactly right to see one man go pusbin' an' swellin' an*'crowdin' everybody else off deside-walk (o lot depubHo know dat he am a king-bee, but such mou have to carry de anxiety of beid' in dei'fto de tailor an' of dodgin' de grocer an' of subscribing 25d01. to build a' church widout a hope of being able to pay 10 cents to the dollar:. In feck, imy V iriends, dar am heaps an fi heaps o' things that doau',look|zictly riftht to tis^ at fus^;/ glance, but wKeriyo come to figger it up an' divide and: substract we fve all; got a ne«p to be thankful fur an' t6 entourager ttsi to git tipi sirly in de mawnin'. ; A mancan brace his legs and Jay: back, like a mule, an* kick away at de hull worli an* hate everybody and be hated in return, or he kin pick up sartin crumbs o' consola- . tion, crowd inter a seat in de back eand of de wagin, au': take a heap b' comfort, knowin' dat somebody is < wuss' off dan himself. Let us accumulate to bistaess." '-^petroit Pree^Press. 1'1 ■;;; '■ ...■