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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 513, 14 June 1881, Page 2

You enn excuse a man for taking s <• oomy view of life when he names bis ••uild for a rich uncle and the uncle allows i . and then the day after baptism goea i-ito bankruptcy. Ma Carlyle's severest critic, and a critic '■' his own school, says the St. James's t't'taelte, was tbe old parish roadman at V. •clefechan. " Been a long time in tho iii'i.hbourhood ?" asked an American i'-iveller on the outlook for the sight of a .• ~_;e. " Been hero a' me days, sir." • '•.'hen you'll know the Carbylos" "Wecl t■iit I A ken the whole o' them. There • ■■!_, let me see," be said, leaning on his • ovel, and pondering, " theie was Jock, ' • was a kind o' tliroughither sort o' chap, • I ictor, but not a bad fellow Jock—he's • !-id, mon." '"And there was Thomas," i I the inquirer, eagerly. "Oh, ay, of ■ rrse, there's Tarn a useless munestruck i .q), that writes book, and talks havers. "i i:m stays maistly up in London. There's •i . thing in Tarn ;,but, mon, there's Jamie , >'.-•! mair swine into Ecclefeehan market l;,an ony ither farmer in tho pairish."