AN ARGUMENT A POSTERIORI.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 141, 26 May 1883, Page 146

AN ARGUMENT A POSTERIORI.

The other night some couple of do?en of JßJgl': rikins were lying prone on their stomachs: oHL number of stacks of wheat stacked on the wharf, uaing in the hearing of {ladies^ra^ lnenading the place what the average constable;.; calls "obseen langwidge." Oonßtable JM^cdoij,*^ nell, who was on Lhe warpath, came aronjgjwij^a:; ratan in his , hand^and, the nearest rpp.^po-'.' 1 ; jecting: hemispheres offering a temp^iiili^rge^; he made a sweep, and ijrew a wheel, like^imen*!dian line, on the af or^jstpd hemispheres. 'A'npwl^ from the sufferers, who instinctiveiy applied i&eb*! '. hands to the parts affected, and the'whble^o.wiSij i made a stampede 'up the wharf. . Stoppi^'fo^l^ 1 moment at the toll-house fov »..' < .blo.yr^^)rfe|iCfi the larrikins remarked, , " The blopitiing |boijß| i can't runi'V Scarcely /.were the .word&'|su||i|^H when he got a ,No. 10 on the ci?nt^pfVg^|^B short aad sweet like, a donkey's kick j^and^fatlH !ye^L, r .pf .•:., ■".BsU*/§^?sffi?siajmmM scootpA;^iap;,^h^ --^^^M^J^«BHHBBk ■ ' ;Bhelteran* th^tie^est^ub^^^a^^^^^^P

', ■^^^^^EiirUßE I§^LECTfc^E^RfN6T' :;; T :: ' o '^j&JEr- 'Wakeiieidi who is out in the cold again, •li6,ying ; beeiiignominipusly defeated in his West ;;,,Cpast ; . electioneering campaign, has been consoled : > f W?tn ,a:banquet,'at which the most complimentary "jtMngS:, wprej said. Of course, he used the old "Jna.ckney6dphrake about " this being the proudest moment, of his life," an "epoch in his political ■.-career," and" so forth, just as if he had any poli".tical,.career Vqrth mentioning. Wakefleld has /been repeatedly rejected by different constituencies, and it seems to agree with him. Now 'that the custom of salving the wounded dignity \ of defeated candidates for Parliament has been so .■-..successfully inaugurated, it is not likely that ■■'. there will be any scarctity of hungry wooers of the .sweet voices of the free and independent. •' .35LQ3Pihen, Feltus ! here's your chance.