About Thakara.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 May 1915, Page 3

About Thakara.

NOTES BY JONES'S BOY'S

MATE,

(To the Editor)

Dear Sir,—The dance is postponed. There was a dispute. Andrew said if they thought dress suits were out of place in lhakara lie would retire ironi the committee. He was "'just a milker" nowadays, lie admitted, but he felt as well fitted to wear his dress suit to-day, as he did when lie ruled the roost in his native town. Then All and Jim spoke up. All' said it was ridiculous just because Andy had a dress suit that the others would have to buy or hire one. Why Tom and Clarence backed Andrew up I don't

know, but the end of the trouble was

I that th<' meeting adjourned "without fixed date," as your Joe is 1?- to put it in the meeting reports. .«> I'll have to tell yoiii about Andrew instead of [ the dance that <ii<i u' l, occm. Andrew is from son.e plmv one hundred miles no! tli-wefll.- <■;' : something like 'Tn Heelmis'' it sound* wlu'ii Aiuli'i ~ »«>•-. it ; but he I only groused wlic . asked f■;in whether thi'.V .hud bi>:.K.s there. He admits r . tliiit the ileelan folk are an awfn' canny folk, and he ascribes it to the fact l - (1) that a week before Culloden the Ik-elan forces under Bonnie Prince ChHirlio gained a braw vecclory. and (2) that the niair sensible yitm ainangst thein staggered haine wi' their booty and left the dullards to fecht at Cullondeti, where they were slain to a mail by the Duke of Cumberland's >Sassenachs. So in these days all the Heelan men are gey cautions, and what they have they bold, and so forth. For they are all descended from far-seeing folks and though in these days they breed their own beeves instead of driving them from the Lowlands they still cnn show the Lowlands a few points, he says. That ends Andrew, for this week. The rain hereabouts bus pint Tlia.kara in good heart again, and the ' cookies' -pianos—otherwise tlu; milk buckets—are ringing night and morn with the eight-finger exercises, and the milk cheques for Juno 20th will beat previous winter records. The school children have got nice little certificates testifying to their kindly hearts. Tliey gave all their prize money to the relief oT the suffering Belgians, and they have the lifelong reward of knowing that they chose the better part. Perhaps by next week "Jones's Boy" will be recovered from the shock of finding the dance ]>o.stponod, and then you may get a few more verses from him. For the present be is indisposed to put his thoughts in print, and it is in response to his invitation that T am the gap, though a verse is beyond me T am, etc.. J [TST BTTJ...