Bullets, Slings and (H)Arrows.
As though the Pauper of Takapuna had not had sufficient of the slings and arrows of life, it seems that some miscreant has been trying to abbreviate his miserable existence or his mortal frame by shooting a bit off the lower extremity of his anatomy. It was a decidedly • pauper ' attempt, and the ' bankrupt ' bullet did no more than make one of Mr Harrow's leas ' piebald ' for the nonce. A poetical friend writes : — I heard that Ned Harrow, When wheeling 1 a barrow, Was struck by a bullet. Well, now, Mistei Kelly, I'm sorry, I tell 'c, Yet cannot annul it. I wish a sweet fancy Had struck him — say Nancy;, Or egg of a pullet !
It appears that the bullet was a ' spent ' one, so I suppose, to parody the words of another bard — ' A bullet well spent mafces the Pauper content.'
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Observer, Volume xi, Issue 667, 10 October 1891, Page 4
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