A LITERARY CURIOSITY.

Evening Star, Issue 3303, 20 September 1873, Page 3

A LITERARY CURIOSITY.

To the Editor . Sir, —Having just arrived here from the far famed City of Hipocritea Christ Church, 1 mean where there is nothing but cant practiced, where Pa; son cant wher Editors cant, where young Ladies cant where Bobbies kisses fat Cooks at the corner of streets and is paid 7 shillings per Diem for doing this hard work. I came down here to get away from Hipocrites but I find some here last Sunday night I was at a certain Chappel there sat close by me a pale fcamale who was effected by the lasi; sermon the parson was to preach, she suffered so much her Groans and Grunts was terrible now sir she was trying her hand to get ether people to look at her or better than that to get a Husband, this is a old trick with these canting young ladies another poor girl who sat close to her was very bad to but to my surprised, to find her Spooney with a Bobbie in Princes street I did not hear Groan or Grunt then she seem to be very jolly. I borrowed a Bob from a friend to go to see the play of Gfelatea. I thought it very good, the best of the lot was a friend of mine called Major Jormm he was verey verey funny when he asked her who was her Mother and strange to say she told him she had no Mother, How funny to have no Mother. L hear the Mayor of this place cannot eat or sleep since the Railway Works is to be built at Mussel Bay, I am informed that he is lost 2 stone since he heard the nows. I pity the people of Dunedin they are great people for show. On last Saturday I saw a large crowd I went to see what was the matter to my surprise I heard a band trying to play some tune but for the life of I could not tell what it was then I saw a fine lot of ugly looking Ladies I could stay any longer. You have got a smart lot of penny liners here but can not come up to the Christchurch ones. Two of those penny liners will go to report at a meeting, but when the papers appear they have different version aint that clever. I know a Clever thing done than that there is a penny liner whoAiriticise on the Actors and Actresses, he has got down on Miss Btevison. He tell her she drag her pait through and then tell her she is the best ever appeared on the stage, now why dout some of your staff try there hands. I hear that the best billet here is a Tout for the Pollice will you be kind enough to tell me where to apply. Loffer in the Street'. Dunedin, Sept. 17.

[We publish the above as a sample of the style of composition we are often troubled with.— Ed. E. *9.]