ANECDOTES OF SPORT AND SPORTSMEN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1894, 9 March 1888, Page 25

ANECDOTES OF SPORT AND SPORTSMEN.

(Licensed Victuallers' Gazette.) Blue Ruin For Ever.

In the way of mouthing, blathering, and speechifying, the teetotal bore has it now all his own way, and it is only at licensed victuallers' banquets, where the audience are sure, that any man seems to have the courage to answer the drivelling .nonsense and audacious lies that flow from the mouths of these abominable fanatics, who are becoming a far greater nuisance to the community than all the drunkards have been since the days of Noah. It was different iv the old days, when a jolly toper would not stand by and hear himself abused by every miserable anatomy who chose to poison himself with the diluted sewage the London companies nick-name water. One day Jack Scroggins, the pugilist, was making his way past Charing Cross, when he saw a crowd gathered about a livid-faced, black-coated creature, who was holding forth upon the iniquities of gin-drinking, and bestowing such hard names upon those who were guilty of the habit, that Jack's dander rose, and, shoviner this product of water on one side, he mounted his rostrum, and thus addressed the meeting.