THE LIME-KILN CLUB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1596, 30 January 1884, Page 2

THE LIME-KILN CLUB.

' Dar am seb'ral things dat doan' look 'zactly right to me,' said Brother Gardner, as he rubbed his bald head with one hand and opened the meeting with the other.

'lt doan' look 'zactly right to see one man wiith ten millyon dollars an' anoder wuth only ten cents (applause by Samuel Shin), but yit if I wus do ten millyon dollar man I wouldn't keer wheder it looked right or not.' [Sudden end to the applause. | 'lt doan' look 'xactly right fur one man to own a great foundry, while anoder man am obleeged to work for 2dolw a day (Hear! hear! from Cadaver), but if I was de 2dolar a day man I wouldn't frow mysolf out of a job to spite de awner or to please the demagogue.' [The Judge subsides,] 'lt doan' look 'zactlv right to see one mau hold office all the time, while anoder man has to shove a jiick-plane for a libin' (great rustle in Pickle Smith's corner), but he who shoves de jack-plane has de respeck of de community an' keeps outer jail., [Rustle dies away. "It doan' look 'zactly right to see forty lawyers rush to defend a criminal who has stolen money in his pockets, while de offender who am moneyless am left to dig his way frew a ten foot wall wid an 010 knife blade (tjnns on a dozen faces); bxt if I was a lawyer I should aim my money any oder way 'cept by sawin' wood. De public doan look for any pertickler display, of de conscience on de part of lawyers, an-, darfore suffer no disa'pointminfcs,' [Grins no longer observable.] 'lt doan - look 'zactly right fur one man to have a big brick house an' anoder un a rough bo'rd shanty, but 'long 'bout tax time de man in de shanty kin sit on de fence an' chuckle over de fac' dat he aint rich.

' It doan look 'zactly right to see one man pushin 1 an' crowdin' everybody eke off de side walk to let the public know that he is a king bee, but such men have to carry de anxiety of beiu' in debt to de tailor, an 1 of dodgin' de grocer, an' ob subscribin' 25d01s to build a church widout a hope ofbein'i üble to pay ten cents on de dollar. ' In fack, my friends, dar am heaps an' heaps o' things dat doan look 'zactly right to us at fust glance, but when ye come to figgcr it up an' divide an' sub- ■ tract we've all got a heap to be thank . fill fur an' td encourage us to git up airly in de mornin'. A man kin brace ■ : his legs an' lay back like a mule, an' , kick away at de hull world an'hate ; eberybody and be hated in return, or. ; he kin pick up sartin crumbs o'consoiarhura, crowd inter a seat in de back ' ' cand of de wagin, ati' take a heap o' comfort, knowin' dat somebody is.-wuss v . off dan hisself. Let us accumulate to : bizniss.' - • V "■