JIM THE MILKER. .

NZ Truth, Issue 57, 21 July 1906, Page 4

JIM THE MILKER. .

TAKES PROFESSORIAL DEGREES.

"Professor and Madam Sharkey— Boss Spook Raisers."

A Rampageous Butcher Outed.

'Sir,— l must give yer to understand tKat when me and the bosses wife drove away m • a kab we was going to a high-class boarding house somewhere on the Terrace. It appears that- this place is run. by a butcher. Well, when we drove •up there was wild times. The butcher was on the rampage, cursing arid yelling with a meat axe. Women were jumping out of the winders, while he (the butoher) swore that he. would 'gut them alive. The bosses wife says, "Don't go there, Jim ; he will gut yer, and what will become of me and our children ?" , But me blood was up, so I. runs up the steps and, as the butcher swings his meat axe to cleave me skull, I hit him one on the jaw. He let go the axe, and we fought through the whole house, smashing crockery and furniture, but at larst he lay "uiet. Then the wor men came m crying and blessed me as .a great reformer, as this butcher is a well-known vagibond. I left as the kab was waitin' for me, and the bosses wife was m fit*. Well yer can see this was no place for us. So we drove up to one of the leading hotels m Wellington, where we have srooil quarters. Yer will, notice amongst the late arrivals Professer Shavtav and Madame Shnrfcev from America, well-known spor-lc raisfrs, fishylogists and so 'forth. 'We un^c-rsi and thnt. it, is the iutenshun of this distinguished

kipple to deliver lectures m all the spook halls of this much favored colony where great wonders will be performed. The Professer is a hignlycultured man while Madame Sharkey has • a great past reputation. Tha'tls the way we are boomed. VJe wont to a first-clars hotel, so we might be boomed. We haye muney, a pretty penny I can, tell" yer, what we realised from the bosses property and the savings from mv steady billet at 15s sterling a. week. We are all right. Yer will hear abou^ us soon m the spook line of Wsiness as we are pome: to deliver lectures m all the Australian polonies. JIM THE MILKER.