"THE PRINTER'S DEVIL."
TO THE BDITOB. . Sib, — In replyl to your able and interesting leader of the Bth instant, it is so impossible to settle such a vague bet as the one you there offer me, and the sum named is so enormous, that. l fear I must refuse to accept it. As, however, I do hot "wish: to* pine away under the stigma of being "branded as a contemptible maligner and slanderer," I enclose far publication with this letter a clipping from the " New Zealand Mail" of about three years ago. By comparing this with " The Printer's Devil," as published m your issue of the 17th ultimo, the public will be able to judge for themselves as to the Originality of the latter. I emphatically deny either having taken you to task or having been forced by you to "cry peccavi" m the matter of orthography, Luckily there 'was a "third person present on the occasion to which 1 presume you allude.. . . v I acknowledge my error m calling. ybur* production " poetry," but I oould riot call 1 them, as you do, " rhymes," if "look", and " lunge," and. " fiend " and " friend " may be taken as examples, and, consequently, was at loss for an applicable -wor4.; : ;• ■ > -Thanking you for allowing tb,at . my ".twaddle ■ is at aH events gramiriatioal-r-I am, ,4jo^, r . ' , ; ; :...;■ '■■;.V-'\ '..■■'.- '• ' , ■■: ..'.■'.
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 62, 15 May 1878, Page 2
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