MORE SPLUTTERINGS FROM A QUILL PEN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 70, 3 May 1873, Page 3

MORE SPLUTTERINGS FROM A QUILL PEN.

“ Ayr ! oh > a ye ! well, yes ! oh, yes! aye. I suppose there s a living jo be made oat of it!” bo spoke CueJ-.sey Wucksey when congratulated on his again being installed at the Tauranga xtotel as knight of the pewter and the glass. Don’t believe he really thought so—appeared more Hko a martyr to circumstances (“over which ho had ™ * n>av })Q allowed to quote W H.b. s words in his pathetic address to the inhabitants of L-uninga the other day. “Paxillus” evidently fools hit on the subject of road works. By too way, he propounds a strange anomaly. In one place he says he fears Igo ‘too much by hear-av, and the next time or tw» says I am “very observant.” What doe® !’• rrseo.ii P Oi ««,.octal Road, 1 Call Only say that I had occasion to go to Te Puna the other day, and went, over that portion of the Otumoetai Road supposed to have been worked at for the lust fortnight. I saw a man burning fern. Not a sod had been turned, lu sooth, a gigantic piece of road making ! I notice that 'lax is agitating the fencing in, &0., of the racecourse site. States that many people are prepared to assist,—.lomo by contributing labour, some materia), and others money. This will be a rare opportunity for Captain bkeet to exhibit bis prowess at, digging post-holes : it will pay him about ns well as digging in his garden ! I wish “ A Missionary’s Son” had signed hia proper name. He had nothing to be ashamed of, and, besides, it would be very satisfactory to know on good authority that there is a missionary in existence minus “broad acres.” Cincinnatus” (?) is at any rate candid in his statements. He prefaces his eulogimns on Mr George Carthy by frankly Jetting ua know he is not an unbiassed individual—iu fact, says that bo is “interested ” in the return of this Mr Carthy as our M.P.C. Hoes he want a billet ? If so, I would recommend him to study the art of spelling. Ho should spoil his no in de ‘plume “Cincinnatus,” not Oincinattus—two n’a and only ono t, my dear bilht expectant. On the 25th instant the cutter Victoria defied the winds and the waves and proceeded to Xahawai. Look out for the Bth May ! W. I. Booth and Co. have invested in a wee riding whip at the establishment of the Holly Varclen patentee with which to knock down (to the highest bidder) all before them. Poor Ebenezor ! I see you are likened to the showman a monkey. Now, 1 protest that I have not the foggiest idea what the monkey did, what he was, where he existed, at what" period he existed, nor who his master, the showman was. However, on the same day you are likened to this mousey and so am I. but for very different reasons, you for climbing too high,” and I because lam (t r> Cs ;f, Ht ” re of dee *> observation.” The dread Iw. us makes the simile in my case, and the indefinite “We” in yours. I can'only say that to xny admittedly observant mind there seems a contradiction in the two similes, for if the monkey was as Pax declares, a very observant creator© surely he would not Snve climbed too high. The only solution, I think, is that “ Paxillus ” and We must be alluding to two entirolv separate monkeys Possibly they are suffering from terruri on the brain. Never mind, Eb , brotaer in arms—no, I beg pardon, brother in adversity I see the natives have been at their old games in the Waikato. The day m*>v yet come when “ We” will be only too glad to' take shelter in your back store under care of the invincible r.R.Y, I. don’t know a word of Latinor 1 would follow the example of “We” and spout some. However, on the chance of bein» right, and because I don’t believe anyone will understand me, and because it seems the fashion to do so, here goes a sentiment appropriate to yourself, and a fact that “We” and the TRY should remember when speaking of roar Diction as v .O. JS/on rapni, *,d recepi," which by interpretation meaucth, “T have not taken b 7 violence, but received.” Tommy Hod.