PUFFINGS.

Patea Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 60, 31 August 1887, Page 3

PUFFINGS.

(Evknino Pitfisa.) Throwing up the sponge ! Stout in ; a blue funk! What is it Tennyson says “ Showing the white feather of a shameless life I*' What’s he been up to now ? He’s written to Dillon Bell to say he expects the Ministry will be defeated ! Ho ho ! It’s come down to that has it! Who’s riding for a fall now, eh, Yogel ? Yet Stout’s going rampaging about the colony raving .and jawing and swearing the Ministry are going to wipe the Opposition out! Ah, but everybody can see his knees knocking together all the while ! Stout’s only got a heart as big as a nut, and there’s a worm in that! What made him write that letter to ■. Dillon Bell, I wonder ? Ah, wouldn’t you like to know ? There’s veels vithin veels ! Stout wants to wind ’em up while yet there’s time I Don’t you think it’s part of the .mutiny Against Jonah ? k . Very likely ! He’s trying to let it be known quietly iu London that he’s going to get rid of Vogel! How on earth did it leak out! Dillon Bell doesn’t usually telephone the contents of confidential despatches to news agencies, does he ? Not exactly, but he may have been obliged to mention this in Financial circles, so as to give the credit of the colony .» lift bj the prospect of Yogel being shunted ! And so it may have reached the Pr< ss Association ! , I should think Yogel will bless Stout J when he hears of it! They’re a lot of scallywags, certainly I