Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 117, 19 October 1901, Page 3

Notes and Comments.

It was a "wreck of the brilliant Kildooi <(who_a we .borough last met clad Ike poiaxics. unto Solomon in all his glory) who slunk tlown . High atreet and took his -accustomed stand at the Baqk ■corner. Things had evidently gone wrong with him, for of his -canvassing finery nothing now remained but a pair of kid boots, and those in. the last stages of respectability. Dirty moleskins -encasdd hia nether extremities, ha sported a time-worn waistcoat with strings in Hea of buttons, wore a -coat to match, and capped the lot with a battered felt. Gone were’ the lavender kid gloves, the high -collar-and the immaculate shirt—gone to that u ancle’s ” from whose -clutchesno property returns. • All these facts wore rapidly noted by •tis companions of the .corner, and stored for future reference. They iuew he was down on his luck, and partly 1 suspected the reason. But it was*to Manoghue that the harrowing details were confided., "AVil!,’' me bhoy, an’ how’s tha -cauvasain’? ” said be. "We dtvwn’c - bear So much about tha tiranny av tha roolin’ -classes now since ye lift, us. Whin does tha vast ttbrmyav oppriat wurkin’ min march out av thur jobs (wid you at thur hid) ta swap places wid tha oaygur-drmn’ employers ? ” Kildooi didn’t answer for a space. Then he glanced across at the new

Ijaildiaga oh tha opooaite coruar and said somewhat irrelevantly, « oi’m gaud awvec ta troi av oi 'Cahtf’t-git a job ahifti®’ bricks from tha ground ta tha tap av tha wall. KJaavassia’s played out, me son. Two days afther oi started me gluvs .was broken at the knuckles xemoindin’ a naan av tha absiloot naycissity av joinin’ tha Asabciaahun. Ho that he wadn’t joia.in so forcible a manner that me throusers wuz shplit from bed ta heel an’ tha cist, av m« togs suffered. Oi combatted his argymints, as Joody saz, but afther he had woiped me bteedin’ Jfahce -on tha ground oi lift him in payee. Thut wuz tha constant tale, Manoghue, an’ heer oi ana. Iv tha Wurtkin’ man fales he’d loike more ■screw he’s <juoita at liberty ta «anvap fur it, but Oi’m not bavin auy rPore.” , ‘‘ How did tha family lake it'? ’ queried Manoghue. ■ “ Thar isn’t raly any wan in opt.bouse gayv Joody, hut on this eccasbun tha ould woman thawt fit ta give me a pays av bur tongue. We fit it oat, and Oi wuz best—second best. Thin Joody leek■shared me about tha sin av lavin tha coont »ry go ta rack and rooin far tfia sake .av ray aeglict in not collectin' tha hard-earned coin av tha toilers, an’ thin Oi took me book. The ould wooman’s a grate gur-ri, as’ Joody’s a grayter, but trbin they lash me fur not cuonin’ tha wfiolo country, an’ nivir give me a hhanst at home, Oi’m bound ta be out av ford.”