THE ILLECKSHON.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1469, 1 December 1881, Page 2

THE ILLECKSHON.

: Misthur Bdithue, — The other day betune this an' Narrywi who shud I meet but Phelim Mulcahy, an' sez he, " Well, Mic, an' who mite you be goin' to vote fur ?" " line goin'," aez I, "fur to vote fur Fred Whittaker," sez I. O, tare an' 'ouns, Misthur Edithur, ay you ony seen how he turnd up his eyes wid pius horror. " Arah, avick ! " sez he, "you wudent be afthur ruinin' the counthry," sez he, "an' poor ould Sir George, wud you?" "An" fur why?" sez I. "Shure," sez he, "afthur the butiful edykashun you pot, an' the clear hed you hay, au' the grate insite you hay' into everythin' that's fur the good ar the pepel, an' the amount you always put down on a subskipshuu list," sez he ; "shure everythin'," sez he, "betokens you a liberal." "A liberal," sez 1, "an' what's a liberal ?" " Arrah, honey," sez he, "a liberal's a man who dusent be thinkin' ay himself at all at all, but what good he can be floin' his fellow cratures. " "Wishna, then, Phelim," sez I, "it's meself 'ud loike to behould one of the critturs, for he must be a rale kurosity." "But," sez he, "that's divargin' frum the pint. Whittaker," sez he, "is all very well at gettin' grants fur roads an' fur bridges, an' gettin' money to stipend in the district for the public ; but, Mick, ay you wanted him to do you a turn privately, although the money that 'ud do it 'ud come out ay the Govermint, sorra a bit ay him 'ud do it." " Shure," sez I, "ay he gets the money spint in the district, don't I get my share ay it?" sez I. " I'd rathur have a liberal allowance of money enny day than half-a-duzen liberal men." "Ah ! Mick," sez he, "ye disave me ; I thought shure ye were pathryotick, an' it's Sur George 'ud be sorry to hear ay it." "Faith, an' it's moren he'd be ay he heard I was hungry," sez I. "An'," sez he, "there's Pat Corboy that isent going to vote fur Whittaker, but fur Johns, the liberal, an' you know, Mick, that Pat's a man of advanced idayes." "An," sez I, "avit shutes Pat Corboy to vote for him shure his vote's his own, an" he can do what he loikes wid it. What," sez I, "does Johns want to get into Parlymint for?" "Shure," sez Phelim, "to reprisint you." "An' who the divil axed him to ?" sez I. " Why he cum out himself widout axin'," sez he. "Shure," sez I, " i very spalpeen in the counthry 'ill bo wanten us to sind him to Parlymint, an' what the divil will he be doin' in Parlymint ?" sez I; "shure it's only larfin at him, they'd be, when they'd got ould Sur George's back turned, an' axin' him if there was any inhabitants in the district he cum from. Shure, mightent you as well give ould Georgy a proxy," sez I, "and let them sind the honyraryum up to us to do sum bits of work wid, for," sez I, "it sthrikes me that's the only money that 'ud come to the district through him." Och, holy Moses, Miather Edithur, 'ay you only see him afther that, be the powdhers ; I thought be was goin' to have a fit. " Well," sez he, as a last resource, " will you vote for ould Jackson thin?" "Well thin," sez I, "I will not, for Thaddeus Vicars has just been tellin' me what he wants to get iv fur, 'an its not linden' meself to any of 'era, I'd be, so you can put that in your dudheen an' smoke it, sez L Wid that, he put shpurs to his horse, an' away he wint aa if the divil was afthur him. So I'll be biddin' you godd-by for the prisint, but I thought I'd expos© how the blaggarda . thty to wdrk on a man's feelina'. — Adoo, yours alSwtaitely, to© Ifept.