FINN V. SUNDOWNER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 62, 20 February 1877, Page 2

FINN V. SUNDOWNER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKABOA MAIL. " A fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind." —Byron. As Byron's critic sympathized with an A.S.S., so Sundowner you sympathised with an A.B.C. from a fellow-feeling. I infer from this that you must have been a ped here or the other side, and so sympathized with the cloth. You see I have no more faith in your advice than you have yourself—l still scribble. The clasp of my fin is indeed great—take care that it does not leave its mark on yonr reredos. I'm glad to escape a course of Dotheboy r s Hall, , Or a new course called egrotat, the worst of all. What a pity your opinion of pater and mater-familias is not shared by many. The colonial Legislatures do not share in it; the people of France, Belgium, Germany, &c, do not share it. Oh! sapient Sundowner, will you kindly tell us how a father who is ignorant of grammar can tell whether an A. B. & understands it or not ? Oh! Sundowner, when you wrote your last letter you must have had more than your usual allowance of "long Hooper's." Before you write another, epistle, take my advice, and become an I. 0. G. T. In your knowledge of the natural history of the flea, you are immenseiy my superior, your knowledge was obtained by dear bought experience. Your quotation, Mr. Sundowner, shows your native modesty. The pedagogue is a flea; I am a smaller one ; and you are the smallest. I admire your modesty, but take care' that you do not come within reach of my finl Like the Yorkshire jury, I find yoiiare not guilty this time ; but if you trouble me again— I won't object to supple-jack Those little insects off your back. Should they trouble you too much, you may command my services— jfchat subject will be a congenial one, when I hope, instead of blessing .the Duke of Argyle, you will bless -' ■-~-■: ■■■:■•••:: FINN; .' :

TO THE EDITOBOB , THE AKABOA MAIL. Sir, —I am a thick-skinned .man, and can -'stand a good deal in a general way, but I don't at all see the fun of bearing other people's sins as well as.my own. A.C.B.S. —by-the.-bye what the.. meaning of all these letters is I don't know, unless its some new London University Degree—attributes to me a number of remarks made by another member of the School Committee. If A.C.B.S. had only read the report of the Committee meeting in the Mail of the 9th inst., he would not have made such a foolish mistake, but perhaps he can't read, at all'events it is very evident the " schoolmaster is abroad " this time. Let me give A.C.B.S. a little advice, aHd that is in future not to make himself ridiculouß; by hitting the wrong nail on the head, and I may tell him this nail does'nt like it. EOBEET NOONAN.