LIEUTENANT SIMS IN EXPLANATION.

Evening Star, Issue 4260, 21 October 1876, Page 4

LIEUTENANT SIMS IN EXPLANATION.

; '"" morning contemporaries were f&d'enough to mention me to day. • What *s&■* was /merely to'clear myself ,of .any ' „'' - ' siijpicjlon of being a mountebank, but having rf" , that lam so generally mis- ; *, '.lnMeratood/you would be adding one more »''»'vxriifl'the -.many favors already received by in.-;*;-d,aerti»g-this letter, It is well known to my "»■ ' -few-friends humble .servant >»■■'■ ' is professional swimmer, but a retired | naral officeiv'who hopes by-and-bye to fetc! j : • ; r *|> at ' University of Oxford; and if ""•'^during otjr.itemporary banishment I can '' • succeed in making the good boy brave, the ' 'v^eatboly'Htrong.and 1 lead the skunk from ' ; '' I WL grovelling pleasures, surely lam as useifi \njly: employed as if I'were following the iequaiiiy honorable employment of breaking stones,"'with' a view, as some one said, of .- . , onedayhaving "a nice, comfortable hotel." ; . ■'. 'And. if I have committed the unpardon able i\ .'•Tence; of not. 'V-mak'ing'' it, pay," let me honestly ask can there be; a more miserable fellow than the money-loving " : •'schoolmaster,. the-roan- who loves his banker more than his boys? To ; those ~,,towards whom I have failed to do my - • luty'l desire to express my very sincere ' iU 't egret, "and. whilst thanking them for thei. t •, great .consideration, desire to asßure_ them f: : ;'., the'sole reason of rny; staying in •. And,now, sir, to quote Professor "* Sale (with variations), "If.the heathen will rage,, let them, for I am going to work."—l Am, &c, ;.-■•■. - ~ Alfred R. Sims, R.N. >!:;:• Dunedin, October 20.