The Wail of a Disappointed Billet Hunter

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9061, 9 June 1898, Page 4

The Wail of a Disappointed Billet Hunter

According "to the .'AVestem Grazier* (published at Wilcannia,. New South Wales), a member of Parliament, jc ipresenting a constituency up in the Big River country,; recently received the'following letter fiom a free and, independent.billefchunting supporter who did not manage to set 1 the position he was after:— '.:. • j Deer Sur,—You're a dam fraud, and you-know it. I don't care a rap for the' billet or for the niuney either, but you could have got it forme if you : wasn't as mean as muck. ■■ Iwo pounds a wae'c ain't aov inbar to me than 40 shilfinsl is tc you but I (inject to beki' made tip. iuferiiil fool of. Spoil after you ■ elected, by my hard worlriu' a frier wanted .'to bet.me that you'wouldu't be in the house moren a week before y'oii'made a bass of yourself. I bet him a Cow on' thet, as I thought you was worth it then. After! got7our note aayin'. you dekiined to ackfc in tha matter i druv the Cow oyer.to the Feller's place, an'tole him'he had won her.. That's orl I got by. howiiu! mesalf. horse for. you on pole day, and months befoar. You not'only'hurta man's Pride' but you injure him ?in bizoess. 1 believe you .think yru'll gei in a.gen. I don't. An' what I huh think is of mow knsf.qubce than you iuvijui. I bclio'/e you t;..kea-'plcslur in outtiti'yuu b:'4 hinm, but .wiito till the clouds roll by au' they'll out you—just behind-the Ear, where, the butcher cuts the pigs. Yure no mac. Yure only a tule for a'few squatters. Ah' idon t think yure much of a grafter either Go to hoi. I lowers meself ritin to askunk eventhp I nied him a member of parlerment.