"THE VAGRANT REPORTER."

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 156, 1 March 1872, Page 6

"THE VAGRANT REPORTER."

' To the Editor of the Moukt Ida Chbonicle.)

Sir, —There is not to be found, on the Hogburn a greater admirer of literature than me, and as we have no public library here, but only the ' Mount Ida Chronicle ' to read by our firesides, it is a great pity that you cannot find better subjects for your subscribers than the trash written by your "Vagrant Beporter." I never uses coarse, vulgar language, or I would indulge in some well-deserved expletives! against toat ignoramus calling himself | "Tom." I daresay he thinks he is aj scholar, and wishes us to believe he j knows Latin ; but I can inform Latin is all doggerel, and everiC his' English bad—most horribly ungramatical. And, as I have studied Latin, and got a prize for grammar in my .young da?s, perhaps your tial, stuck-up reporter will take my : advice in good part, and employ an amanuensis in future to write for him, or occupy his, time m some other trade. Just to satisfy him that I am competent to judge of his ungramatieal mistakes,.! will pick out a few ihhis last 5 letter, and opposite them write my corrections. Perhaps >he may profit, thereby:—

Vagrant My Corrections. ■ •:; Mistakes. ' Wire in. Wire* a noun, and cannot be used as a verb.; Rendezvoused. French proper word, rendezvous. v The erf added makes it bad French, duffer; bobs. No such words—only vularisms. : Xtempo. Should be written extemporaneous.

Not aJ-going. ~ * Shl3uld v b'e ■.~,u ..■ ~■■;? ~ '■'_ paytitiont. _;;* ;J?rench ;~-r Me* : v ßurstm£ v par^ip^s ™fr '^presentsoundVjbad. : He should hare said ~ ... exceedingly.. /. Habeas carcase. -Latin Habeas corpus... .; _ ...TJs poor chaps. ; «We poor men. Commissioner's Warden's assistman.' /■"-■■••- 'ant;' •"■''■•■ '''-•"'" - I ' ; Anyorieaxinghim. /-"'' Any person aslung ~ 'Mm. Nothing to "say to Not •anything to tim. ' r "say to him. • Liirgo. Language. Thanks to the u Thanks to ihe cheer. ' chair. '.,'■', "Waited a bit, . .. !;,,^mun^^ii&k)-: ■/• > ... :*:>. J •>-:':/ while, My mate and me...,.,- , Me and; my part» ■ . .1 :•■;■ ' nej.; ..;..:■.. „•. _- .->.k. . ,Afore all the Ma-. Beforeall the Jusgistrates. tices of the Peace. Printed up on pla- Printed up in placards, cards. u : . I Elites. ' Prench— Eleets. The Minister 1 got The^rererehdgenn P* i tlexiiaii* ; .himselffrom his seat.^ Wasthere .. . audience. ' '_ ._ "audience. These above written is only a few of the absurd ungramatical blunders ho'"" made, and I Hope I have written pnougii to shame him infai^silence"neneeiortja ; and you will pardon me, Mr. Editor, fo,* making so bold as to say that pe<>- ■;*'. pie will think you do not knoyr better\" yourself if you allow such ba4 grammar to appear in your paper., . ~,■ - 4 , Apologising for trespassing so mueb, on your space, I am, &c, .

Neddy, Y Formerly a student at Mr. T— *, Academy, Middlesex.

[We dp not profess to be so well educated as our correspondent "Neddy," nor were our early days spent in an academy, but we suggest for his consideration—although we scarcely hope to convince him—that all the grammatical blunders of "Our Vagrant Reporter " were made purposely.—Ed. M.I.C.]