RASTUS.

Waipa Post, Volume V, Issue 215, 27 May 1913, Page 3

RASTUS.

LOCAL POLITICS

O’Bryen r.es he’ll stand for the schuL* committee if l will, but I’ve got mo doubts ai) mt me ligibility as the lawyer put 3 it or somethin’ loike that.

Ye see whaile I’ve been in the dishtrict years and years I’ve been disfranchise so to spake minny’s the time by stayin’ out after the Curfew bell rung.

Enyway, I won’t stand this toime. I’ve worked me fingers to the bone, and’squandered all me intilligence instrucktin’ the tachers how to tach and the childer how to run and skip and sich loike. And loike muiy another patriot I’m down and out because of me loife-long habits.

I’ll plump fer O’Bryen so I will, and ye’ll see him git in. Ye see that sc mile room’s the place they’ll holt it in, and it’ll just hold me push and no wan ilse. We’ll fill the room at 5 minits to half-past sivin by the new town clock, and hold the fold till the whistle blows, thin rush the circle and shoot a goal h.dore the gineral public has ris from their family fire-side. 1 remimber the Pome when I’d meet all by mesclf at the appinted time and place, and as no wan else turned up I'd go and gather in sivin good min and true from the pub and the jail and strute corner, and we’d go in be default so to sp.ike, but now its all differint. These new comers is interferin too much with iocal politics, and I’m cro.vded out after all me ifforls to make the town grow up in the way it should.

I ll clar ; out wan of these loins days and lave the managemint of local affairs to thimseives and —what’ll 1 do with . the ould woman ? Well, they can have the care of her, too. She’s more tlian I can manage.

But inyway, I’ll be there and plum]) for O’Bryen, ii I have 10 rin the gauntlit of thim hesuffragettes miself.