BAD LANGUAGE.
; TO THE EDITOR. : ■ ;’4 - , \ Sir,- —I was pleased to notice that a correspondent has already, dnjiwn your* attention to the filthy .and disgusting language used by several boys when the. ißov. Mr Morley was preaching, in the. Harmonic. Hall last Sunday evening. The anstancer complained of is ’not a : solitary example. I ’ : It is customary for ' several lads on Sunday afternoon, when children 7 are wending their way to the Wesleyan Sunday School, to meet at the stable doors opposite 7 and use language which, for its vileness, could not be surpassed by the lowest and most, depraved criminals of. our gaols. .Sunday is the special .day. selected for giving vent to these choice .epithets ;') still, it is not unusual at other times, whem three or four of these young lads meet in the neighbourhood mentioned to make a public and practical announcer, ment of their intimate knowledge of some of the vilest expressions a Billings^
gate vocabulary possesses. Now the matter has been brought before the public, I trust the police will endeavour to prevent its continuance, and, if persisted in, to convince these boys that Colonial liberty does not mean unbridled license.—-Yours, &c., Paterfamilias.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1044, 8 June 1883, Page 2
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198BAD LANGUAGE. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1044, 8 June 1883, Page 2
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