The Chinese Revolution.

Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 68, 18 September 1900, Page 2

The Chinese Revolution.

Sor, — I'm siguiu' me Dame Pbil 0 Grady at wouat or ye wont know who's ntbtin' the lether through me hand bein ' crippled np wid an argimeat wid Malachi Macgaire an axed me what 1 k u owed about the Chinese revolasbua, au 1 I tould him I knowed as much as eny 1 Rise as wasn't sayin' much for me intelligence. I tould him they was a ontjrateful lot o, haythens as worshiped idols au' confushuns au' and built a wall all round the country to grow their tea trees aginst tho' the powers had been for 14 tbousand years a tbtyin' to make Chrischuns af thim wid the aid af mishanarys an' opium, an' the nearest pint af bivilizatioa they knew was boxin' an' they'd BO thousand profesbunal boxers agin 50 ia Britain an' Meriky thro' the 2 governments settin' their face agin the noble ari af self diffinse an' conskwently had to git the help af forriners as knowed nothin' about fightin' at all, at all, xceptio' the French as could kick a bit but don't count for nothin' seem' its contbary to the Marquis o' Queensbnry'3 rales. Bat I tou'.d him I was akwaintsd wid a bit, an' was the sole invinter ax it as wou'd floor the lot af em. Malachi said he didn't belaive it so I tbried it on him an' broke me fist an' put his face out af Bight for a fortait wid it ; an' I'm willin' to thry it on eny disbalaiven M.H.R as the scboolmastber says manes " mimber af the 'ouse of reprobates " for the good af the constitusbua. It was what saved the legashnns in Ohiney, for Sbannessy, as in out there, knowed the hit an' 'nocked the Chineymen oat as fast as they came ap. Faith Shaouessy wou'd be a great man ef be , he wasn't such a liar. Suure this South Africky is a tberrible unhealthy oounthry. Fast I was thrubled wid rumatiks an' afterwards I was thrubled wid me consbence. I was tould if I put a pratie in me pocket it would get rid af me rumatiks, so to make share I sbtole a bushel and carried cm about wid me ; an' thrua for ye they cured me rumatiks, but the captin got hould af the praties an ordered em to be cooked for the kontingent, an', begorra, every mothers son af thim got laid np wid me rumatiks. Now, it wasn't the shtaling af tbo praties that throubled me consbence, bat w ether it was mesilf or the capt'in lihat was to blame for the poor divils gettin' bad. Bat if ye know enybody carryin praties in Jtheir pockets to care ramatikg ye mite tall em not to ait em aftberwards. I remains your sincere frind till yet want somethin' Phil O'orady.