While The Billy BoilsSearchTo the Editor of The Albany Observer
Dear Sir, Smarting from the effects of a neat back-hander administered to itby the Sydney Bulletin, the W.A. Bulletin prints the following:"Says the S. Bulletin--'The talented Henry Lawson has left Sydneyfor Western Australia.' Who's Henry Lawson?" The W.A. Bulletin mightreasonably ask this question, but it is not right that an unknown writershould be used as a weapon of spite by one paper against another, and thismysterious individual in question, who might be a German, could easilyrelieve his injured feelings as follows:
O my prow vas plack mit curses,Ven I dries to write dose verses;Ven I dries to write dot boem,Dot de best was effer been.All in vain my peer I guzzles,But I gannod solve dot broblem,"Who's dot Western Pulleteen?"
Und I swear mit pleets and dvonder,Und I ferry often wonder,Would dot paber's cirgulationShusta little pigger been,If dey toog deir seissor-pinchers,Shust to cut some leetle inchesFrom that smarty-smarty writerOf dot Western Pulleeteen.
"Let dose mountains fall and hide us"Gry benighded odersiders,Shame come round and woe betide us,Und our fellow men deride usIf we effer yet can find oud"Who's dot Western Pull-it-in?"
HENRICH HERTZBERG LAWSON
I remain, Yours etc.,JOE SWALLOW