A CLERICAL CHOW CHAMPION.

NZ Truth, Issue 112, 10 August 1907, Page 6

A CLERICAL CHOW CHAMPION.

Dr. iErwin's glove for the Alien. .Thfi*,;_irty Mongol with" his pigtail' coiled on the top of his nut, is the especial favorEte of Dr. Erwiu, of Christchurch. He loves him like a brother, and claims for him the riglrtto live; consequently, he pat--rontses him all he knows, and the Cbinfcee' takes the parson's threepenni/es for calloifctee, cabba-gec, and wege,table- malla with great regularity. Every day he calls at Erwin*s humpy on the Papanui-road, and is treated with great respect while he is being beaten down m his price for his greenstuff. A Chow delights m being beaten down when he has previously, and with malice aforsyfchought, fixed the price purposely high so that he may have a convex sational .encounter with femininltj/, and eventually agree to let the st.ufi go at its true value. To see «>• white woman bargaining with a t> mil-tag, i ow) lascivious heathen isn't a very pleasant sight, but it happens every day m the week, and every week m the year. Parson Erwin -. IS A CONCEITED NINCOMPOOP, who thinks no small cheese of himself, and preaches at Knox Church, Bealey-avenue, twice on the Sabbath, wet or fine, on Scotchbyterian subjects; Regarding liquor he is as rabid as he is Scotch, and fumes and frets whenever booze or barmaids or j kiadxed subjects is motioned. ,The