MRS SLOSH'S CONUNDRUM.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 748, 3 April 1877, Page 3

MRS SLOSH'S CONUNDRUM.

There is, and has been for a long time a bitter hatred between Slosh's wife and Mrs Me. They both occupy the same house m the Carney Place* South. On the Origin of this feud gossip is silent. Matters reached a climax last Thursday, when Mrs McThonipson threw a bowl of coffee gronnds out of the window" on/to Mrs S— — *s washing that was hanging on a line m the back yard. For this outrage Mi's S. took an old wringing machine crank, and went up stairs to see Mrs Mo ■—«■■« She soon returned m an excited State, with one ear hanging by a shred and wildly calling for help. After "bracing herself up" with a little h&ev, she opened the window and ga ve Mrs MeT the most fearfnl tongue-fashing that ever mortal listened to.- Having howled herself hoarse, sha- wound up her harangue by asking the following conundrums :" W r ho used ter bile puddin' for their b« oarders m an old stocking? Who gin their first husband rat-extirni iuator ? Who's old father was huug . for bein' a salt water pirit % Who p •«& Iterosene or? the H- — -tt's cat, and. lied it off on ter me % Who stole Mrs Blarnie's coal-scuttle? Who's: old mother used ter steal cups and' tsassars when she went out a nu.'jsin'? Can ye auswer any of them que ations ? O, ! of course not; you don't know nothin x "oout sich thi ngs—sich a high-toned jani-tartasi ~you are must belong to the fust fatoilies m the country. I shouldn't ? wonder." continued Mrs S., with wit hering scarcasm, "ef you w as fust cozzen ter Gen. Griut's \ or a own sister ter the Que,en of Missouri; And how tempr it yer are, too — never drink no rum. Ain't it a shame yer nabo ,rs should call ye * bleareyed k angavoo ?" Mrs S. would pvobab' ty have said more if Big Fred hadn't^" come along with a drawn billjT, and threatened to open a bom. b ar dment on the old woman's head tf she didn't take U m. — ' Danbury F<ews/