EPISTLES TO HALCOMBIUS.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 28, 24 January 1877, Page 3

EPISTLES TO HALCOMBIUS.

11. It came to pass about two years Before that Thy nnus the scribe was chosen torulejdtffcfthe Council of Manawatu, that the people of .Poxia were afflicted. Now, Foxia was a little place, aud the affliction of its people was that they had none tb'heai them when they were sick. So, behAL there came unto them a wise mTtn^HK he even came from the great tbwn^^Nelsonisis, and he said unto the people of Foxia, "So now I am he whom you desire. lam Rockhay the quack." And again he said "Quack," and the people wondering much did answer him and say " Quack," and he bpeneii' his lips to them again and said, "Oh, people, be no longer afraid. I can cure anything from a hole m a bellows up to a broken-legged chair." Now, the people much desired to have him amongst them, because he was not as other men. He called himself a doctor, therefore, the people 6f Foxia put together their money, their shekels and their pennies, their silver and their gold , and'they gave it to Rockhay, who dwelt amongst -thcm,:and when they were sick h? gave medibme unto them and it did them no harm; and when they were well he even persuaded them they were sick, and he sold unto them medicine and behold it was good for — for him. And the fame of Rockhay and the town of Foxia, and the wisdom thereof m obtaining so wise a man went forth, and behold the very great men, the Government, did give him offices. But like Jeshurun he waxed fat and kicked, and he spied, and, whom he disliked he attacked underhand. And the people murmured and said, "iThe, Quack is no ioiiger good." v * And the wisdom and the cunning departed from Rockhay — he got proud and insolent, and so the eyes of the people were opened and they would no longer ibe .deceived. So the people of Foxia fell away from him, and the Government took away his- offices, and the last state of that man was worse than the first. Thus endeth the second epistle. Written to Halcombius By alter Johannes, of Foxia.