THE WILKS- WEST CONTROVERSY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAIt. Dear Mr Hedditer, — I Aint got much eddication, bub eintz I red them letters of Mr Wilka and West, sez I to my Old Oman, He sboolder my pen and msb in where Hangels feer to tredd. Now wen I heerd as how they was agoin to meat on the Colyton Hall platform, and Chaw one another hup over the tacks on hnn improved Vally, sez I that hinterests the Ground Parrots in and around Colyton, He ear wot they think about it, so sez 1 to my strawberry growin Naber, wot der yer think ont. Sez lif Wilks steers due West hel nock the bloomin stuffin out of Im with bis lamed Chin Musick. No, sez another Joker as as Got Kows and a well improved farm, no, sez E, if E runs broad side inter West EJI run agin a snagg— and although hes been a blowin orf steam pretty freely lately, Hes been a readin old hansards and studdyin Longworm and a fillin of hisselt Hup with larnin reddy for nest Lecktion and wen E strikes ell bust and blow hisself hup bier ncr a kite and I believe thats wot Mr Wilks is affeard on Hisaelf Mr Hedditer, I am, &c, Blarney. Colyton, August 24, 1895.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 51, 28 August 1895, Page 2
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220THE WILKS-WEST CONTROVERSY. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 51, 28 August 1895, Page 2
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