MY LAST SKEIN OF WOOL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 153, 20 June 1876, Page 2

MY LAST SKEIN OF WOOL.

To the Editor of the 'Evening Mail.' Sia — '• Cheviot Wool " has favoured you with another very neat epistle, in which he assumes that I had placed myself in a diffi culty from which I had attempted to free myself but had failed. Of course I dont confess to this, but I cannot (ail to see that " Cheviot Wool" placed himself in a very awkward position when he undertook the very questionable tisk of defending a dirty cau3e, and, from the fact of his having shirked public recognition by sheltering himself behind his woollen mask, it may be inferred that he does think his position somewhat discreditable. Perhaps I might with propriety stop here, but the last clause of his letter is bo funny, 1 cannot resist the tempation to refer to it ' Cheviot Wool" claims thit his existence in. this weary world, is almost coeval with mine, and this is how he puts it. — " Touching my long clothes, I may not have worn mine very long alter Mr Black left off his and it is quite possible for anything lie knows to the contrary they were kilts made of Cheviot wooll." No doubt this isvery witty and I confess I did laugh when J read it for the very novel idea

of a baby being nursed in kilts fairly tickled my fancy and I thank the author for the amusement it afforded me In conclusion Jet mo remark that if " Ohe»iot Wool's" nursing kilts were like any kilta I hare ever seen, they would afford him free ventilation, and plenty of freedom for, his; wee bib leggie pepgies. But wae v s mo sit wad to unco cauld JeleidingVin winter — lam&c, James P. Black.