MISTHER MAGINNITY ON THE SHAM "FITE."

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2085, 17 November 1885, Page 3

MISTHER MAGINNITY ON THE SHAM "FITE."

TO THE KDITOK. Sor, — I puppowe ay I don't mikl ye me report on the grate hte yell be givm' me no pace. Sir Goorgo rote to mo fiom Wei linton axin me to take command, but I tould him ho cudn't do betther nor give it to Colonel Lyon, for the dud a betther sodtfer is there in New Zayland, so theie ; long lifo to him. So whin Sir George "cm up, linn and the colonel and meself met and talked the m.itther o\er. He axed me ay I would take choree o' me ould corpse, the Horse M.vanes, but I tould him there was too much could wather wid P' thim boys and not enough wlnshkey, and se/. he, " Paddy, avick, I know ye have a w.ikeness for me ould and eilitamed frind, -• Mr Power ; small blame to ye, se/. he, for throth ifa 'lligint dhnnk, so it is. I've a Vvakeness about me heart, and his pottern always relaxes me. 'Tvvould never do, though, not to give ye a ladin part." Thin, se/. I, I'll jine the Tayameuta boys ay ye don't mind, for mho, se/. I, it's theio I'll find a good Hunther, they'll Kig(g) me out daccntly, they're nndher a Bond to fite well, and that bein the casp thei'll be phnty ay Bruce'* lashitu .iv dhnnk, for their qiurthcr masher isadacent boy ;faitlihecnn dhnnk like a Ro(a)ch(e), and what the divil more attraction does a Tipperary boy want. " Thrno for ye," hcs he. "Pass the dhnnk," he, "and till us how «omo o' thim invaded the finrin m m o'-war, sure they wor all racommindid to me foi cap tin-..' 1 Wid that ho began to laugh, throth ses I, its little to laugh at ; so it i«. Sure su of thim wor in eh irge ay an llligint oncer, and he tuk thim an boord ay a furrin' man o' war, and ses the captin, " I'll haul down me flag ay ye won't bate any wan ay u>,'' so he tuk down the flag, and the boys lit him off ay he pionused to Ockl md. '* Its lucky for ye," ses the " I didn't bring the horne<onbooid, I would ses he ay the boat would hould thim, throth. ay it did we'd make hawkn mate o* ye so wo would.' "Bedad" ses .Sir (Jeorge " I'll make a giniral ay him so I will." Well the hte kern off accordin' to advartisen ent, I sint wan brigado to gard tho cheebrens at Pamure from the rpd coats and tho Roo-miam, the other lot kep an eye on the carts wid the drink. By and by tin o' thp linmy's Hor»e Marancs landed, an led be the parson nied a desperate attack on the potteen, but our boys dhruv thim off wid a \olloy of corks, blackiu' the " parson's eye-*, tin oth I Wouldn't borry, his face to go to a dog tite wid. In the manetime tho red c»ati and the Wyook mill wor dividin' there attinshuns betune wa'chin' a chance to g.>t into tho sheeb 'ens, .md a nalwiHhun, picknick, but they noon left the pickmik, for fona- dhrop o' the crathur was tl ci". Thin they timed to dhraw oui boys away from the potteon carts be rwin' the ci y that the Roosluaiis had landed, but ould bnd.s wasn't so asy caught. Soon afther this we seen the inimy comin', an' in grate .sthrinth mtiiely, and our nun began a steady rethrate, keepin' betune the whishkey and the Kooshians. Colonel Lyon suit an ordherly to me to ax me how he cud make the mm chaige the inimy. I «mt woid back to lave it to me. I got tho throopK betuue me and the inimy, and nes I, "Boys, the colonel sos the Roo^hians has tuk wan o' the dhnnk caitn, and ay we don't take it won't lave us a. dhrop. I'll lido beVnnd ye, and ay ye are bet I'll l.ule the rethrato back to Ockland. Charge now for the lionnrr ay ould Oiteland. That was enough. Every man tuk a tite hould ay his kippeen, and mcd a rush on the inimy who war laslnn' into tho potteen. We but thim back, and saved at laste half «' the dhnnk. Whin they fouud they couldn't get into the shecbeen«, or capture the coinmysary.it waggins, the Rooshians retlnattd undhor a heavy hre ay ould boots and cablMgi- stalk-, liv in' us masthers ay the Held. Their ciptm sint me his soord and hm submission, but I sint it back to I hi in wid .1 quarther cashk o' Power's ' whishkey and me bles.sm', and that's the l.isht we seen o' thim. I rode ould Pegasus at the fite, wid the followm' result : — Och blood and tundher, 'Twould make yevvondher To hear the shtoiey o the grate sham fite, And how the'Mayger (That jolly ould stager) Mcd the Rooxhians run wid all their mite. SirGeorgo Whitmoro Wid throopt galore And the wishky carts all in the van, Mcd a foine atldhiess At the officers mess, Whin they swore they would dio for the dhnnk to a man. .Ses tko bra re Captain Hamlin, "There's a law agin gamblin Or I d bet ye a cashk or Power's besht, Ay the Roo-ihians land On oui beutiful -tlnand, We'll give their houN an etaraal re->ht." P F.urchildsikofT, We noon bet off Wid .ill his mm so hould and tite, We wor covered wid glory From the hte so gory, And we all got dhruuk m town that nite. Wid grate veneration, Tho next gineration Will read ay our deedi so bould and brave, And when wero dead In our last could bed, We'll aich havo a trophy at the head ay the grave. Biddy winds her respocts. From your thirnty friend, Pa 1 RICK M U. INNITY. Ockland, 14th NoTimbei, 1«H">.