Under the Street Lamp Vignettes of Australian Bush Life
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' Bob was a youth of about twenty, a devoted worshipper and understudy of Ruggy. The old man 116 116 UNDER THE STREET LAMP had won him a^Yay from a gang of larrikins, and it was whispered that in some unexplained way he had saved him from going to jail for some senseless escapade, and had got him under the influence of the Young Men's Class at Demas Street Church. He seemed to be earnest and devoted ; but I never could tolerate the slanginess of his speech, and I felt compelled conscientiously ...to oppose his being admitted into Church membership. How- ever, Buggy's pleading and the testimony of soft-hearted Cephas Merritt, his class-leader, pre- vailed, and I had to give way, and so (I'm a little ashamed to say it, seeing I am now senior circuit steward) Bob Spriggs is a member of society in the Demas Street Circuit. They all seemed anxious to hear Old Buggy's letter. I had marked out personal paragraphs here and there, and moderated the language in places. 'Why you haven't had a letter, ' Buggy wrote, 'is partly because I expected to spend Christmas with my pals (if you'll allow the word, Mr.
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