A Hard Case.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Issue 758, 17 December 1900, Page 2

A Hard Case.

■1 Tim, thd bush-carpenter,, expatiates on,the text that " You lias to bo up to/snuff a bit when your on your upper"-— I wai in 'Melbourne, once, an [hadn't had a taste of beer for near, two days; next to "mad I was. Went ftp to th 6 door of one of them semidetached villas, they , has in the suburbs, an' made the usual pitch to the missus. She gets me into' the kitchen an? gives me a feed.. Well, 1 had to stow it away ? though I wasn't a bit hungry—l?d just had, a good breakfast in the you seebut I had to) or she?d think me a himposter. Then I starts the ole tale o' sick wife an' kids. She listens indifferent like., you'know, and' then says, if I'd go to the cepaetery m*

O5HDme the lay of, was done p?>peiy I if 'arf-a-erown. I tcji her I at handy that I couldnake a nbstone, if she wanted [. She ll two .■'&<% tp l>uj jthesnamel, ■three beers at a pubjj.Qt; top ■Chen a couple oi browns, a little lamplack and oil timix with up a bit of t},th-brick the blyiad old I'?^L1 '?^L °^ JP^o I'ad °'wrX_too. '.Tußt'l uo^H^4h.e'U vnA ' mcrnin ? a^ air washes al: M'Jiat 'ad The 'ole me more nor I bowls up to lets me in out as she done that • ' she says ul !' I have took HHHH|rs pairitin' j

r^bFny enamel, so careful. i r so lovely bla<?k an' shiriinany ?our^ now was you V |? the biggest number I Ifr<i stomach, gets' me b,it ■ears There was heavy Rit an' I took a look over morning-. The o'lo cussm.' Ter save 1 couldn't help bustnext thing I knew I'd left benuclei" the ear, an' 'with the ole nie—hell-for-he'd a-got me if a blooniin' big tit 'pi out oj: garden j on, liy tliQ tho pint with a clean goner.-—