QUITE ENOUGH.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 90, 29 August 1877, Page 3

QUITE ENOUGH.

He ■ ' was a practical but 1 rather.;, pedantic /sort :of a man, v and 'said tie. did not believe language was; made to conceal; thought? More , than this , he did believe that the dictionary was a work, made to use, and that every, man should-be familiar with its minutest contents. /"But;' said the student- "that wpuldbe impossible for any*; man.'' Nonsense !" exclaimed.; the- practical man, "why, there are few swords . that coulcl^ be ihentioned that I wouldn't be- perfectly at lurine with" " / " I should like to give ypu/a few samples," replied the student. " I believe I could commence with the begiiming of; Webster anrl stump you before we get through the As.". / "Go on /with your saniple A's," demanded the selfrCpnfident one, " and then; tackle the Bs and run dn tbtheZ's." " I'll /try," said the student calmly,; " by first givingyouafeW sentences m ,A^.'V ; . ; ;, : .;, :■;,;,-- ; ;;;, '.'...,-;'_■... And squaring off- for the work, tlie student asked the practical man . to please beat m mind' and trarislateV when he had done, the few sample sentences, following :-— , "Approach, .adorers .. a/fc Alliteration's altar. Assemble abdals aiii abderian : . adepts, - -analyse /ah ambagitory aaid: amphibiolbgical allocution. Accept acataleptic and;;-'''ajbßon;o;us;V:;^B'Uge-nient;- .an. .alliterative .. aggregation, actually ariagoglaticaL; iA^ an acephaHst,/ abjure all : adscititioiis ; and ardently advance. Ablepsy and audacity:: ;are;-;alike^ : 'anatreptic and a,diapKbrus its adjuvants and anamnestic adhibitipris at abstringing ahd/ablaqueating all abstruse anfractuosities and anagogics, . as aU adepts are ftwiare.' Avoid anastrbpKes as anacoluthic and, aniscmeric; and abandoning adbitoriea adya,nce against apparently, antiphf astica-l anagraphs, Apply apomecometry, and arrive at: an appdeictical anagnornisis ; and acceptan author's acknowledgments.' ' " T^her/e,'' demanded the; student, "translate that, and I'll commence with "the 3's^ >nd run 'on^to tb/e Z's!" But the practicai man . wholwas so intimate with his own language had fled;-;- / .A^ r :A!y: : r:-y- ; A^AA : -,