THE POTATY IS COOKED.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 110, 22 January 1881, Page 3

THE POTATY IS COOKED.

BY PADDY MURPHY. The Profit was saited alone ir» bis whirry. When bould Captain Knollys kern up' to the. dure ; The Aid-to-Kong bowin' exclaimed : '■' Faix I'm s&rry, To trouble ye, darlint, but railly I'm, sure Yell pardon the freedom I take, for me million Is paicoful an' good, an' yer frindahip I've booked, Me master Sir Arthur's a grate polytician "— Tay Whitty then s«d — " The Potaty is cooked." I " Begorra, me boy, sure I don't understand ye | Yer langwidge is sthrange, an' its maiiin' obscure, Sir Arthur has Bint me to ax an' command ye To meet him." The Profit danced round on the floor j The Captain bewildhered, was filled with comma. tion, Tay Witty so funny and comical looked, Be dad, blur-au.ages, it seemed a sthrange notion — Again came the words—" The Potaty is cooked." " Grate Profit," again spoke th« Captain, " this letter Was written be Johnny, the mighty Prime-ear, He heard you wer sick, an' he hopes that yer betther I've brought ye a dhrop of the craythur, me dear. The light's on the mountain, the livers are plucky " — Tay Whitty's Bly wink sed— " I'm not to be hooked," His look -teemed to say — " Now clear out if yer lucky,," Hi» tongue only sed—" The Potaty is cooked."