JIM THE MILKER.

NZ Truth, Issue 180, 28 November 1908, Page 6

JIM THE MILKER.

Ive heered that me old friend wowser Jim Gibbs is coming back to this, country. He has been away for a' year ' or more m the old country on Ml pay, boastihg and blasting his own trumpet. Ma;iy coves of his owd kirk were wishing ♦that he would never come back and that Old Nick would lay him by the- heels, which he will do sooner or later. Jim G-ibb has been publishing m the old country papers that he is m charge of .New Zealand and that he (Jim) will- at once proceed to square the circle. Wow, fancy a cove like him m charge of anything spiritual, a great big hunk of a cove that should be belaboring the face of the earth with a pick and shovel or wheeling 1 , a barrow. Holy Moses Kiljoy . Worth is bad enough^ but lie is not suph a damned trash as the other joker. Oh, if. the bosses wife could only meet them* on a platform she would drive their flies down their throats and teach them, the .new doctrine of Kaintucky and the rules ■of decency. Of course, yer cant expect much decency from a red-hot tinpot gospeiler who is always bellowing nobody can do it but me. By. gum, it is my opinion /Bhat the, whofie gang of wowsers, ; no-drink cranks, and other vermin will be shovelled into hell, even as the firemen .chuck' m coalito the furnaces of the JVtaneno . when they want extra speed. Yes, sir, the. capers of Jim Gib'bs, Worth and others of the wowser push is giving great satisfaction to the Divel, who is no doubt their father as yef can see if yer attend any of -their conventicles. Of course, yokels like Lribb ,and North/ are always damning . better/ people than Yer hear the same tinker talk, about prohibition and cursing the drink traffic, yet when, Mr Seddon wanted to stop all drink m a prohibited 'district (Clause 9) the whole of the . wowsers fought it tooth and nail and said' it was an outrage. Now, ; yer cap. understand that under the law m a prohibited district a ebon oan take into his hotise a quart of spirits or a gallon of "beer daily and play hell, set fire to his house or do anything he likes because there is no perlice. .If a cove .does, anything wrong m a pub sotae joker will him, but God help *he poor woman and family of a'drunkanel. who is allowed to take m whips of dtink ijito a ./private house. Well, now, the wowsers havetak-' en to ano-ther amusement. They are hunting another wowser who 'has written a book something about Christ oh the Cross, and the whole gang of them are hunting him like a fox as they do m the cold country, where fifty or sixty ablebodied men and women with about a hundred dogs chase a fox, a creature about the size or a torn ca.l;, But such is the perverted frame of mind- of a portion of the people. Thank God, such swine are not m a majority. Me and the bosses wife are making /a tour down to dour Dunedin, Invercaugill and the Bluff, and yer will hear frcjm me from time to time.. ,JIM THE MILKER.

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