JIM THE MILKER.

NZ Truth, Issue 152, 16 May 1908, Page 4

JIM THE MILKER.

How are the the mighty fallen ? ■. The bosses wife asked me this question iri bed the ( other night, who are the mighty do you mean old Jake Duthie or do yer mean that hook nosed chap called Nathan who •wants to buldose the city by paying three prices for his gasworks ? Listen little woman all these coves aint great meh, they are little men, men who , want to grind their axes at the public expense, yer never heard of such a gang of plunderers since the days of Jack Shepherd. Them great men. My oath the dunghill is the place for them, notwithstanding that they are under the nobody can do it but me act. Of course old Jake Duthie is a cove that yer don't expect much from, yer mind the late Sir John McKenzie described him as a purse proud merchant, yea, even a successful vendor of tin tacks and that is what he is. The hosses wife recons him a political blockhead and so he is, he is always roaring, when Ah was a young man. I have seen him when he was a member of the House jumping up and down to catch the speakers. eye, yelling Mister Speaker when Ah was a ycung man and the speaker said to himself it is a damned pitty that yer did not die when yer was a young man so that decent people would not have to hear the result of Jake Duthie's monkey brain. The bosses wife has heered of this joker before when he wanted to build his shop right over Willis street. It is a wonder that he did not do it as he appears to be a kind of a tinpot joss m these parts, of course he (Jake) is said to be wealthy and like Atkin a great kirk prancer. Now old Atkin is a good enough cove if he would not give way to buns and tea, also strange women, yer can see it m his face he gives them no quarter. Now Jake Duthie is a different kind of cove, he is always getting paragraphs m the daily t tripe that he (Jake) pays highest wages. This is one of Jake's jokes, he pays no more than other blokes hut there is one sure thing he demands two days' work for one day's pay. If yer can, sheer of! Jake Duthie. He has sharp teeth and yer might gel; hurt if yer go near Mm. Now lam going to say a v?orid on the last Mayoral election. Hislop is m and lam glad of it, but it might have been different but for Don Sneaser de Bash. But yer never can say what coves like Fisher and Holy Moses Killjoy North will do, they are both first class liars, and as Mr McGruther said to the bosses wife, Good madam they (both of them) are like the brig of Dee Swine, if they aint agoing to do a dirty trick they are acoming from having done a dirty trick, so yer cant go wrong if yer give them a kick m the guts every time you meet them. It is what both of them would do to you if they got yer m a dark place. The bosses wife said to me with tears m her eyes, Oh Jim what would this country be if all the coves were like Holy Moses North and Atkin and Fisher? Yes good little woman I could bash all of them easily, but you axed me what kind of a place this would be if the aforesaid vagrants had their way. Let me tell yer that it would be a hell". All the same Moses North and Sneasar Fisher would have all the plunder and yer workingman could go to hell so far as either of them cared.

JIM THE MILKER. P.S. — Don Sneaser de Bash is now advising kidds to play cricket— kidds bowling at kerosene cans and belting the umpire with a board off a packing case. Now let Sneasev Fisher keep, to that job, let him act as a wicket-keeper to Lidds and* he is all right, hut don't let him set up his damned suck to respectable coves.— J.M.