TRUTH IN THE LIME-KILN CLUB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1320, 6 March 1883, Page 2

TRUTH IN THE LIME-KILN CLUB.

' It am my painful dooty,' jsaid the President as .opened Mmeeting ' to inform you dat' deaf has a|ain invaded our circle.' Brudder Slipback Burbanks, of Syracuse N.Y. am no mo' on airth. He breathed his last three days ago, ,gO{sl«ej(' days. \yiiat axsl)i}n Ayxll de oluh fcalfo iude 1 ! . '•: ; r 'imove dat we qe'nd the widder a resolushun of sympathy,';announced Judge Cadaver, , 'I reckon dat we had better resojve dat de olub has lost a shinin' light,' 'De elub . will neither resolve no?: for'd any resol.ushuns of sympathy,' remarked the' President, ' De' widder and obill'en can't eat a resolution, pben if written in blue ink, De.;, seokfqtary will mail her a ten-dollar greenback from de club funds, and express de hope dat she am dooin' well under de circumstances.'- /, , s . 'Dis Club hasn't light by be deat of He was no shiner. Pact am he wus a werry common sort.! of cull'd pusson, an, it took him' as 'long to add seven an' eight togedder as it would some udder man to aii'n two dollars. He was accomplished in notink, he excelled only in killin' lime, ' when at work by de day. He woijld be nq better'off than' if flroi}oiu}<iec| forty lyin' eulogies on his character. He can be no worse off if tell tl|e honest truth. De usual emblem qf sorrow willie .hung on de knob of de indoah fur. q e spa'cejof.Wo an' we will remenjer Brudder Bijrbanp as extremely . good-natured, eben if extremely^laay.' v ,,